[Kde-pim] Git migration status

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hi Torgny,

Am Sonntag 18 April 2010 schrieb Torgny Nyblom:
> > If it turns out the repo is considered too big, we should reduce it.
> > The following comes to my mind, and it should then be measured how
> > much size these methods save.
> > - Splitting off the e35 and e4 branches into their own repo
> 
> This will loose history as history is lost on moves/copies between
> branches  not in the same repo.
> 
> > - Looking if there are/were single big files that cause a big
> > increase in size
> 
> None that I could find.
> 
> > - Cutting off the history at some defined date
> 
> My preferred choice.

Wouldn't it be possible to have the complete history in the repo, but only 
check out the last revisions? Then there could be some user instructions 
on how to do that.

I am pretty much sure Bazaar can do that, and I think git should be able 
to do that as well. Hmmm, from the manpage of git-clone:

       --depth <depth>
           Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the
           specified number of revisions. A shallow repository
           has a number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch
           from it, nor push from nor into it), but is adequate
           if you are only interested in the recent history of a
           large project with a long history, and would want to
           send in fixes as patches.

Quite restricted, but at least suitable to send patches. Actually it does 
not make sense to me why pushing does not work with those shallow 
repository.

If history is cut off, I find it would be nice if there could a second repo 
with full history for archival purposes.

Anyway just suggestions, my last and only contribution (CRM114 antispam 
configuration for KMail) lays years back.

Ciao,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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