[Kde-scm-interest] Meeting minutes

[Ian Monroe]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> 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