Finding this post via google prompted me to join this group... On Sunday, April 3, 2011 6:33:14 AM UTC-7, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote: > > I would go for splitting them into 7 isolated projects. In my experience, > the advantages of this isolation greatly outweighs advantages of keeping > them in one place, regardless of what SCM you are using.
I would like to insert a huge "that depends..." about this recommendation. Depending on your projects, their shared resources, other factors; 7 isolated projects "may" be a good move if you actually have 7 separate initiatives (i.e. only one moving target), but it could create more, artificial, problems as well. My advise would be to use a single repo for all resources of a project that are moving targets and it's really how you look at or source code... Do you have 7 separate projects each with their own schedule and dependencies or one project with 7 components being worked on simultaneously? If the former, you probably already want to break them apart into separate repo's and this might be a good opportunity to break them apart. If the later, Git lacks good support for managing large source trees due to not supporting push/pull of specific repo sub-directories. My experience with Git shows it was created for a different set of objectives than most software project need to solve or are even relevant while adding a large amount of complexity to simple time proven methodologies like continuous integration. If me or anybody else breaks something in the code, it should break the build and your auto build server should tell you about it when it happens, and the team needs to fix it inline when it happens and the code changes are fresh in people's heads... not 3 months later in some sort of integration effort. You want CruiseControl to build the 7 different apps as 7 different > projects. If this is problematic, I think switching to Git is not the first > thing you should address in your organization ;) > ... that really all depends on many factors and I wouldn't jump to any such conclusion about it... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
