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[Kristian Ølgaard <k.b.oelgaard@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21 March 2013 22:37, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:15:24PM +0000, Florian Rathgeber wrote:
>
>>> Those can be built (with a lot of effort) using the tarballs, and
>>> the converted unchanged repository as well as the present bzr
>>> repository will be stored for eternity on the web server.
>> I'm not sure I understand what your plan for the clean-up is: I was
>> assuming you want to take the opportunity to purge accidentally
>> committed files, large binary files or generated files that should
>> have never been committed in the first place etc.
>> However all of this should not affect the ability to build old
>> versions of FEniCS tools: I would advise against cleaning out old
>> files which were legitimately committed at the time and simply became
>> obsolete and were removed again later. Git is really good at
>> compressing text files.
>
> The files I've put up for removal are meshes and generated code, some
> of it quite large.
>
>>> 3. Get comments from Florian or anyone else interested in merging
>>> in converted repos on the Git side.
>> I'm hoping git-fast-filter [1] will do the trick. If not it'll require
>> a bit of hackery. I'm not very worried about our FFC branch (I'm
>> comfortable rebasing it on whatever final repository), but ideally I'd
>> like to not slam the door in the faces of all those having feature
>> branches lying around (Andre?).
>
> Can anyone with a feature branch comment on this issue? Will you want
> to convert it to Git, then merge. Or are you happy to clone a fresh
> branch on the Git side, then patch your changes manually?
>
>>> 4. Get comments from developers on the list of proposed files to
>>> be deleted from the history.
>> See my comments above: don't be too radical, only get rid of things
>> that shouldn't have been there in the first place.
>
> Here's the list again for reference:
>
> https://gist.github.com/alogg/5213171#file-files_to_strip-txt
>
> The simple version is that the list contains the following:
>
> - .h if generated
> - .xml.gz
> - .inp
> - .stl
> - .data files
> - the old manual with figures, tex, pdf
> - some big autotools files

I have no problems with these files being removed, for the reference
files in FFC I think Martin's solution sounds good.

Kristian

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