[Kde-scm-interest] Some ideas

[Thiago Macieira]

Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>A Diumenge, 7 de juny de 2009, Thiago Macieira va escriure:
>> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>> >> My proposal is to track history inside git only from KDE 4 onward
>> >> and keep earlier history in compressed tarballs of the subversion
>> >> tree and make them available somewhere.
>> >
>> >No, all history is needed.
>>
>> I'm doing what I can to import, but it will not be all history for
>> some modules. For example, I will not import the kdenonbeta section of
>> the projects that started there.
>>
>> Any copy-with-history will be a clean slate too.
>
>That's bad, history _is_ important i often find myself looking at
> ancient subversion revisions to know why/who did something.
>
>Any reason for that besides the existing tools sucking?

Yes, the fact that I can't dedicate a full man-month to get this working.

Copy-with-history is extremely hard to do in an automated fashion when 
importing from SVN. I know what has to be done, but I don't feel like 
spending a full week testing this.

Of course, it won't solve the problem of the bouncing-around-with-history 
(things moving back-and-forth between modules) that we've done. I don't 
know an algorithm for doing that.

Basically, what I'm saying is that I will not spend a full month of my 
time to get this done for something that is used, overall by KDE 
developers, maybe a dozen times a year. The SVN server isn't going 
anywhere. If you really need to go back in history that far out, you can 
still query SVN.
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