I usually use https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/subtree for this kind of things, it's starting to be a bit old but it work well. For example I used it when moving deprecated platform modules to their own repository on contrib like https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-platform-wiki-manager.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > That is doable, in two ways: > > 1. Merge xwiki-enterprise into xwiki-platform, move the modules we want > to keep in their new location, delete the modules we don't need anymore. > This requires planning where every module goes in advance, and fixes > everything at once. > > 2. Extract each module that we want to keep in a separate git > repository, using https://gist.github.com/sdumitriu/1993357 (I need to > update this with a better version), and merge it into xwiki-platform. > This lets us handle each module at a time, but extracting a module takes > a while. > > On 03/09/2015 08:56 AM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) wrote: >> Just some mentions about these removes/moves: >> - We moved before things from XE to Platform. It's a pain if you want to >> 'blame' the source and in the JIRA issue we don't have a link from where >> the page was moved from. Tracking the history for a moved page is difficult >> and a comment stating where the location was is useful. >> - What will happen with the history if we remove the XE repository? >> >> Although the history + the blame use case might not be interesting for >> everyone, myself I'm using it often to understand the initial purpose of >> the feature, to determine if it's a regression, to know which person to >> contact, etc. >> >> Do we have a strategy for keeping the history somehow? > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
