> what's the point of keeping individual commits from years ago? It's not as if you'd cherry pick anything from back then.
If you extend the logic, what's the point of keeping any commits from years ago? What's a good cut off date to just start discarding history? Rewriting it?
But in the same breath, what's the point of cloning commits from years ago? It's not as if you'd cherry pick anything from back then. And that's my point, the former requires an org decision and active action, and the other is a blobless clone. The nice thing about the blobless clone is you can always change your mind, you can get old blobs if you find you need it. But if you threw out old commits, and you need them later... that's the brakes.
If you extend the logic, what's the point of keeping any commits from years ago? What's a good cut off date to just start discarding history? Rewriting it?
But in the same breath, what's the point of cloning commits from years ago? It's not as if you'd cherry pick anything from back then. And that's my point, the former requires an org decision and active action, and the other is a blobless clone. The nice thing about the blobless clone is you can always change your mind, you can get old blobs if you find you need it. But if you threw out old commits, and you need them later... that's the brakes.