Sergiu has some experience with this. Maybe he knows some best practices or ways to preserve full history (including git renames).
Thanks, Eduard On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm doing some experiment and here is another issue: the common way to > isolate a subproject history is by using git filter-branch > --subdirectory-filter which isolate history based on the provided path > but this obviously is blocked by any modification on this path. In > practice it mean that no history older than the refactoring made when > we moved to git will be kept (and sometime even worst if other change > have been made). > > Any other idea to isolate history ? > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Thomas Mortagne > <[email protected]> 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. > > > > 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. > > > > -- > > Thomas Mortagne > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
