On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Thomas Zander <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday 12. November 2009 20.02.44 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > i still think (more than ever) that doing big modules is just plain > > wrong.[] > > > disadvantages of big repos: > > - huge clones for everybody > > "Huge" is a bit inaccurate, please provide numbers. (See ML history). > > > - loss of history. > > Can you give a usecase where this is the case? > Can you give statistics on how much we loose? > > Its good to have a voice of reason saying something is not perfect. I think > to follow up we should > a) get an overview of the actual damage so we can decide if we want to > do more work which leads to > b) someone should do the work of splitting and of fixing a tool like 'repo' > to be useful for us. > > point [b] is not trivial, but if you care for this issue you might want to > start now so we get a long way in the short time we have before the real > conversion.
It was decided at the meeting to write such a tool, or now it appears we can just adapt mjansen's ruby build tool. But it won't make it possible to easily make a commit across multiple repos at the same time, the idea is to allow various read-only operations to occur in mass. Ian _______________________________________________ Kde-scm-interest mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-scm-interest
