[Kde-pim] [Git migration] Options

[Thomas McGuire]

Hi,

On Saturday 27 March 2010 13:18:00 Torgny Nyblom wrote:
> Current status for the rules:
> kdepimlibs - pretty close to done (see issues below).

Nice :)

> kdepim - Waiting for the issues.
> kdepim-runtime - Waiting for the issues.

Are you waiting for anything, should I test this?

> Issues:
> Currently I've been unable to find a way to get git to follow history
> correct when a sub directory has been moved across a module border and has
> been renamed at the same time, for instance kdepim/akonadi/libakonadi ->
> kdepimlibs/akonadi at r788342. The history is there but git cannot follow
> the current HEAD backwards across the border.
> 
> One solution to this would be to import each sub directory into its own git
> repository and then join all these into a module repository, however this
> will have the consequence of ignoring any directory renames that the sub
> directory might have had, in other words it will break old builds since
> code might be in the wrong directory.

I don't understand anything about svn2git, so I can't give an answer to this.
Isn't there some way to fix this? Maybe ask on scm-interest.

> Another  solution is to ignore this apparent loss of history, but that will
> break git blame and friends.

I suppose if there really is no way to convert the history, we can manage to 
live without out, but I prefer to have it there.

Regards,
Thomas
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