I guess I don't understand how having two git repos is useful. How do commits
get from the small one to the 'real' one?
Or are you suggesting that we have the large one purely as an archive which
no-one ever looks at ever again? In which case I don't see the point since we
have svn to do exactly that.
The only (very minor) downside I see is that some tools out there (like ohloh) will think
that our project is "young again". Whether that is good or bad, or we even
care...
Ari
On 26/04/13 10:12am, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
So essentially the question is whether we want 2 Git repos (a smaller active
repo and full history archive), or whether we want to keep the archive in SVN.
I am fine with the second approach if that helps with the migration.
Essentially this means limiting trunk to 3.0 commits and branches to 3.0 and
3.1. If everyone ok with this, I will provide some guidance to David, with
specific rev numbers and branch names.
Andrus
On Apr 25, 2013, at 6:45 PM, Aristedes Maniatis <a...@maniatis.org> wrote:
On 26/04/13 8:35am, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
On Apr 25, 2013, at 6:26 PM, Ari Maniatis (JIRA) <j...@apache.org> wrote:
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Ari Maniatis commented on INFRA-5936:
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If the git repository will end up being 6Gb, could we look at reducing the size
of the problem by eliminating some branches or discarding history older than a
certain age?
I was thinking about that too. My current idea is to just create a second repo
for the current work, forking from a point where we switched to Maven and
dropped all the jar dependencies. And keeping the 6GB one for the history.
There is no clean way to do that. In fact the thing which stopped me from
moving from svn to git in my work was that git has no way to clone a partial
repository.
So we could:
* discard all branches older than 3.0
* discard all commits older than when we started work on 3.0
That would drastically reduce the size of the repo and the difficulty of the
migration. And really, how often do we look at blame?
Personally I don't really care either way (I still like svn!), but 6Gb will
prevent a lot of people from contributing some small patch.
Ari
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