Re: [GIT PULL] RCU changes for v4.5

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 8:20 PM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 07:28:22PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Paul E. McKenney
>> <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 01:00:21PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > Please pull the latest core-rcu-for-linus git tree from:
>> >>
>> >> > One thing I should note is that these pieces of documentation are fairly large
>> >> > files:
>> >> >
>> >> >  .../RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html      | 2897 ++++++++++++++++++++
>> >> >  .../RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.htmlx     | 2741 ++++++++++++++++++
>> >> >
>> >> > and are written in HTML, not the usual .txt style. I hope they are fine.
>> >>
>> >> Not to mention the PNG image:
>> >>
>> >> >  .../RCU/Design/Requirements/2013-08-is-it-dead.png |  Bin 0 -> 100825 bytes
>> >
>> > Most diagrams will be .svg.  But if the .png is too objectionable, it
>> > would not be too big a deal to remove it.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>>
>> Too late, it's in git history...
>
> There is always "git rm".  Or is your concern instead the size of the
> .git/objects directory?

My only remark is that if we don't want PNGs, they shouldn't enter git history,
as "git rm" doesn't really remove them. So we can't get rid of the existing
ones, but we can still think about if we want (no) more of them...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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