On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Michael Stahl <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10.08.2011 20:10, Mathias Bauer wrote: >> >> On 10.08.2011 19:13, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > >>> [Nosing around OpenOffice.org I could find no source repositories, >>> although release tarballs are stated to be available. I probably >>> don't know where to look.] > > look here: > http://hg.services.openoffice.org/ > >>> (I see that LibreOffice has gotten down to one, but that doesn't help >>> here and I'm not sure what that means in any case.) >> >> I think that you are confusing things here. If you are talking about the >> "one git" effort from LibreOffice: for historical or other reaons >> LibreOffice always had more than one repository for their code base >> (IIRC even more than five), while OOo always only had one until we > > in my LO checkout (from before migration) i've got 18 repositories... > > there seems to be a script in the top-level that can run git commands across > all repositories (guess otherwise this kind of setup would be completely > unusable). yes: ./g it is a fairly simple wrapper to run the same git command on all the repositories. but it has still serious limitation, and the setup with split repo has inherent pita like making bisection extremely hard...
> >> separated the l10n stuff. As having more than one repository is a major >> PITA for developers if you need them all for even the smalles build, >> they decided to go back to one repository. > > there still seem to be 5 repos left (but 3 of them are said to be optional: > binfilter, dictionaries and translations). binfilter was kept separate because it is on the chopping block... translations was kept separate for the same reason l10n was split in OOo dictionaries was kept separate for the same reason translations/l10n was the last one is help. right now it is not an optional repo, but the longer term goal is to have the help as a separate build/package. Norbert
