KDE PIM Split?

[Ben Cooksley]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:46 PM, laurent Montel <montel at kde.org> wrote:
> Le mardi 1 décembre 2015, 21:10:57 CET Ben Cooksley a écrit :
>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 6:50 PM, laurent Montel <montel at kde.org> wrote:
>> > Le lundi 30 novembre 2015, 22:43:36 CET Ben Cooksley a écrit :
>> >> Hi Pim devels,
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > So I reorganized source yesterday.
>> > I verified that all was ok
>> > So how I do now to split ?
>>
>> The splitting of the repositories can be conducted using several means:
>>
>> 1) Filter branch, where the history is kept in each individual repository
>
> Yep Alex gave me command that he used for split kdepimlibs
> As
> kxmlrpcclient       -- git filter-branch --tag-name-filter cat
> --subdirectory-filter kxmlrpcclient/ -- --all --tags
>
>> 2) Grafts, where the history is kept in the original repository, and
>> is attached by the developer when it is needed. This is how both Qt
>> and Frameworks did their 4 -> 5 splits I believe.
>
> Yep there is a script in kde-dev-script for it.
>
>>
>> As for how either method is done, i'm afraid that is something i'm
>> unfamiliar with - someone on the list should know however.
>> Please ensure you have performed initial test splits, including
>> generation of the repositories before proceeding with any pushing of
>> repositories.
>
> "generation of the repositories" => alex told me that git filter-branch will do
> it.
> But I don't know if I need to have repository in git before that.

Repositories on git.kde.org are not needed before doing the conversion.

>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ben
>>

Regards,
Ben