On Sat, 4 May 2024, Ben Boeckel via Gcc wrote: > - every push is stored in a ghostflow-director-side unique ref > (`refs/mr/ID/heads/N` where `N` is an incrementing integer) to avoid > forge-side garbage collection (especially problematic on Github; > I've not noticed GitLab collecting so eagerly)
That's the sort of thing I was talking about for ensuring all the versions of every pull request remain available - it doesn't need anything more than providing such refs (that someone can get with git clone --mirror if they wish). (And there has been and is work on ensure git scales well to repositories with millions of refs, such as you get with PR-based systems storing all PRs or all versions of PRs as refs.) -- Joseph S. Myers josmy...@redhat.com
