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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:10:43
Message-Id: 479D2BB7.7090905@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree by "Robin H. Johnson"
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4 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
5 > Related to the top level of the tree, can we get a release of repoman
6 > that detects if a checkout is a subset only (eg no top level), for folk
7 > that have subtree checkouts only? (Probably look for skel.*/profile
8 > items two levels up).
9
10 I think we should do like Rémi suggested and make it unconditionally
11 behave as if the manifest1_obsolete file exists. Once we've dropped
12 the old digest files from the repo, the behavior doesn't need to be
13 conditional anymore.
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15 > I vote for actively removing them. I can do big commits like that on the
16 > CVS server, and save the network turnaround time that would happen
17 > otherwise.
18 >
19 >> If there are no objections then I don't so any reason not to go ahead and add
20 >> the manifest1_obsolete sometime in the near future. Thoughts?
21 > Let's do it. I look forward to a lot less inodes on my disks.
22
23 Let's schedule a date for it then and we can have a big announcement
24 to let everyone know.
25
26 Zac
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