Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Separate demos repository

[tom f. <tf...@al...>]

Eric Anholt <er...@an...> writes:
[snip -- move demos to separate repo]

*shrug*, doesn't affect me much, but sounds like a good idea.

> I'm not sure if we want the repository to contain all of previous
> Mesa history.  Right now that history costs 145MB on disk for a deep
> checkout.  If that's a problem for people, we could use the same tool
> that xcb did whose name I forget to to construct a history of just
> progs/

You're thinking of git filter-branch.  It can, indeed, drastically
reduce repository size.  Probably this:

  git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter progs -- --all

is what you want.  Might want to delete (some?) branches and tags
afterwards too.

HTH,

-tom