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[Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Seth,

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 06:53:46AM -0800, Seth Hillbrand wrote:

> >there are two massive blobs that were accidentally checked in, and
> >checking
> >out the repo requires these to be transferred. Should we make an
> >exception
> >and rebase the tree to remove them from the history?

> I would say no.  History is inviolate.

True, but it's a significant chunk of useless history:

-r--r--r-- 1 geier geier   5685856 Jan 17 16:40 pack-1478d96c882a625a8a6a25cac9ec2b8e514a2e61.idx
-r--r--r-- 1 geier geier 157961655 Jan 17 16:40 pack-1478d96c882a625a8a6a25cac9ec2b8e514a2e61.pack
-r--r--r-- 1 geier geier      1100 Jan 17 16:38 pack-81e52eb60810956fd5294dc2fb1ee61ce1aa7438.idx
-r--r--r-- 1 geier geier  20734471 Jan 17 16:38 pack-81e52eb60810956fd5294dc2fb1ee61ce1aa7438.pack
-r--r--r-- 1 geier geier      1100 Jan 17 16:37 pack-e18ed50ebfea3897568189f3806d0a2e7051dd37.idx
-r--r--r-- 1 geier geier  44601959 Jan 17 16:37 pack-e18ed50ebfea3897568189f3806d0a2e7051dd37.pack

The largest pack at 160 MB is our development history excluding these two
files, the other two are the two files packed individually. They compress
fairly well, but this is still 37.5% of our repository size.

   Simon