[Kde-games-devel] Rule writing, common data

[Nicolás Alvarez]

Parker Coates wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 19:51, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
>> Stefan Majewsky wrote:
>>> 1. Upload the complete imported history as a read-only
>>> "palapeli-history" repo. 2. Upload the same history, stripped of any
>>> binary puzzle files, as the "palapeli" repo.
>>
>> I can also reproduce these results: removing the .pala and .puzzle files
>> makes the repository a mere 3.6MB.
>>
>> So I agree with removing them. But I'm not sure if we should have a
>> palapeli-history repo; maybe we should simply tell people to grab the old
>> files from SVN history if they want them. As far as I know, SVN isn't
>> going away anytime soon.
>>
>> There is also precedent for this: look at kdeedu/kstars-filter and
>> bin/deleter-fb in the kde-ruleset repository.
> 
> You know what would be an interesting trick? Removing the files and
> replacing them with a plain text file having the same name and
> containing just a SVN URL pointing to the original file. Just an idea.

Note that deleter-fb already modifies commit messages to mention that things 
were removed. Apart from being a good idea, sysadmins also wouldn't *let* us 
push a repository if they knew for a fact that we messed with history and 
didn't leave information about it. I have relevant IRC logs handy :)

However, I agree with your idea of also replacing the actual files with a 
text file pointing to SVN, and not only touching the commit message.

-- 
Nicolas