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[Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012, Dan Prince <dprince@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The OpenStack Essex release had 82 database migrations. As these grow
> in number it seems reasonable to clean house from time to time. Now
> seems as good a time as any.

Mirations don't appear to be particularly slow right now, and it doesn't
appear that merging migrations will make them significantly faster.

What exactly is the benefit of doing this?

By merging migrations, we lose history in git for why the migrations
were added in the first place.

JE