| Durgeoble | hi | 20:23 |
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| Durgeoble | i have a question, can bazaar lower disk ussage deleting parts of history? for example excel files that only spell changes done for them so olders versions no longer need for nothing | 20:54 |
| jelmer | hi Durgeoble | 22:46 |
| jelmer | Durgeoble: in theory it could remove historical data (but leave references in place) | 22:47 |
| jelmer | but there are no commands that can currently do that AFAIK | 22:47 |
| Durgeoble | is for space economy, maybe i am wrong, but seems to me if i want to edit a little file, need to download all the repository | 22:57 |
| jelmer | Durgeoble: if you don't want to download the history, you could use a lightweight checkout or a stacked branch? | 23:10 |
| Durgeoble | jelmer: dont know, just viewing how vcs works, seeing bewteen bazaar and git, just for feactures such mail and local offline work | 23:12 |
| mgz | one of the dvcs shifts was that it's more important to make history generally available than have each operation on a central repo be cheap | 23:12 |
| mgz | this does tend to break down for binary files which aren't sensibly diffable (like excel files without a filter) because there's basically no useful content in the history, each change is a essentially a whole new zip file | 23:13 |
| jelmer | Durgeoble: if you're interested in keeping the full history the server but having just the latest few revisions locally, then a stacked branch should be a nice fit | 23:16 |
| jelmer | any operations that needs to access older history will still require a network connection | 23:16 |
| jelmer | but e.g. changes that involve recent history won't | 23:16 |
| Durgeoble | thanks jelmer | 23:30 |
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