On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:10:30 +0000, "Simon 'corecode' Schubert"
<corecode@fs.ei.tum.de> wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
>> I'm wondering if we should even bother deleting anything any more
>> on the vendor branch, since the deletions could be done on the
>> master branch as a merge item.
>
> Yes, I think we should, because we perform the deletes so that our repo
> doesn't grow unnecessarily. A full gcc import will use much more space
> (not in the checkout, but still in .git) than a cut down one. Also if
> we delete files, we might as well do so in the vendor branch, which
> allows for easier diffs to it (because all the deleted files don't show
> up).
I agree with Simon. We should not import the entire contents of the
extracted tarball.