Can Evolve be used to retire or archive an early part of the history?

Christophe de Vienne christophe at cdevienne.info
Mon Oct 16 19:39:48 UTC 2017


If what you seek is to clone only the most recent part of the history,
evolve will not help with that.

I don't know of an extension that would allow that.

Cheers,

Christophe

Le 16/10/2017 à 17:45, BOGGESS Rod   TENOVA INC a écrit :
> We have a baseline copy of our code that is cloned at the start of each
> project. Modifications typically involve customizations for a given
> customer, but a few enhancements and bug-fixes go through a review
> process and are incorporated back into the baseline. As a result, our
> baseline grows ever longer. So fare, we’re not in any danger of the
> number of revisions creating a problem, but the likelihood of ever doing
> a daggy change is as close to zero as to be unworthy of distinction.
> There is only the historical value for reference that need only be
> maintained on the server, with no need to carry that history to each
> developer’s and each customer’s cloned repo. I don’t see an obvious way
> to mark a part of past history for reference-only though. Marking the
> past history as obsolete doesn’t seem to work for this case. I was
> wondering if there were a mechanism that would allow this.
> 
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