On Thursday 15 October 2009, Austin, Alex wrote:
> 
> > > Removing those four commits brings the repo from 99MB to 5MB.
> > > While doing so would destroy history that others' use, it
> > > would be a great boon to those who are cloning it for the
> > > first time, and would not be difficult for the rest of us
> > > to synchronize with. 
> > >
> > > Any takers?
> > 
> > Correct me if I'm wrong... but fixing this basically involves a
> > rebase of that year's work.  (Or so it seems with my current level
> > of homework...)
> > 
> > Which more or less means everyone would be getting a new tree,
> > when all is done.  Yes?
> 
> Yup. Actually, I already did that in a local repo I have. Pushing
> it would be easy enough. 

I have a tree that removes those commits plus a few other bits
of noise that crept in.  Thing is, pushing it would NOT be enough
to achieve the full cleanup.  The existing clones would need some
cleanup/updating...


> > I'm not averse to getting that crap out of the repository,
> > and doing it sooner is better than later ... but I'd just
> > want to be sure the impact is understood. 


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