Hi, On Feb 28, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
> Hi devs, > > Since I plan to move some stuff from platform to commons I would like > to know what you think of the history in this case. > > Pros including history: > * can access easily the whole history of a moved file. But sometimes > changing packages etc make too much difference for git to see it's > actually the same file so you loose it anyway. > > Cons including history: > * double the history which make tools like ohloh indicate wrong informations > * it's a lot easier to move without history > > WDYT ? > > Even if it was looking a bit weird to me at first I'm actually +1 to > not move the history in this case. +1, FTR I'd be -0, close to -1 to move it. If/when the source repository is removed for one reason or another, then we might want to import its history somewhere. So the general rule for me is: Copy history when the source repository is removed/deleted/not used anymore. > Eduard was proposing to include in the first commit of the new > repository the id of the last commit containing the files (basically > the id of the parent of the commit deleting the files) in the old > repository so that it's easier to find it. I'm +1 for this. +1 Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
