Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Umm. Why would any distributed version control system always
> need history truncation? I am not even sure that arch has such a
> thing; and I have never felt the need for such a beast.
>
> A distributed VCS that bundles in the whole archive in every
> checkout might well need that, but not all distributed VCS systems do
> that.
I wouldn't be surprised if arch took as much room to store log files
({arch}/...) as e.g. git takes to store the actual content of historical
revisions. Deleting those log files is arch's version of "history
truncation".
[Not that I've actually felt the need to do so, but they do take up a
lot of room...]
-Miles
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