history-reordering extension merits

[marlborobell]

Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> 
> For the record, the manifest of the kernel repo goes from
> -rw-r--r--  1 tonfa tonfa 342M 2008-10-23 18:26 00manifest.d.old
> to
> -rw-r--r--  3 tonfa tonfa 150M 2009-01-27 12:32 00manifest.d
> 
> which is quite impressive (data directory is ~280M big).
> 

Oh. My. Goodness. I just ran this on our repo (with a 1.2G data directory).
Our manifest went down from 2GB to 28MB. Yes, by two orders of magnitude.
(It took about 40 minutes to run.)

I think we have a counterpart to git pack...
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