[Kde-games-devel] A Thought About The Version Control System

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all,

there was some discussion here about whether and how kdegames should 
transition from Subversion to Git, including a discussion whether to keep 
everything in a single repository or to split each games into a different 
repository. The reason for the entire discussion is because due to the large 
history and many binary files in the svn repository, the resultant git 
repository will be extremely large.

What I suggest considering is keep the repository as a Subversion one and 
working with it remotely using Git, Mercurial, Bzr or whatever, possibly while 
starting from a later snapshot. The reason is that distributed version control 
(DVCS) is not very suitable for games (though it is much more apparent in 
large-scale commercial games than for the KDE games package):

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.786992.2

Note that in his presentation, Joel Spolsky claimed that Fog Creek's Kiln 
product - http://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/ - (based on mercurial) has "large 
binary file support", but this is a proprietary product, and I don't know 
exactly how it works.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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