On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Paul Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm back on this topic. I know that @davisp made a script to split the >> file structure etc, but I wonder why or what we are waiting to do >> this. Also why using a script when we could move everything once? (and >> it should be done once imo) >> > > As to why that never hit trunk, its because there weren't enough > people testing it to make me feel comfortable pushing it in. And then > I got distracted by other things. The reason this must be a script is > that SVN doesn't track history based on diffs. If we did this in Git > and then tried to push that series of patches to SVN, it'd result in > removing the history for every source file in SVN. And instead of > going Rambo style and doing it against trunk, I wanted to be able to > test it and let others test it. >
Wasn't suggesting it was your fault :) Lack of feedback is always annoying. I think we can go chunk by chunk in a branch and merge everything at the end and keep the same advantage. That's actually how I do it. I'm not sure I like to use script for that, this is something where I would like to have my hands dirty. - benoît - benoit
