[Kde-scm-interest] git migration and translation of documentation

[Christoph Cullmann]

On Saturday 04 September 2010 19:58:34 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Hi, this is just a heads up so that people that has not seen me bitch on
> irc knows.
> 
> The switch of KDE to git will break the process that creates .pot from
> original docbooks and translated docbooks from .po files since that uses
> svn externals to the doc folders of each module
> 
> I was going to work on a simple fix (create a script that checked out the
> doc/ folder of a git module) for it today but then i realized that git
> does not support the checkout of subdirectories so my simple fix was
> rendered impossible.
> 
> Since i'm not too found of doing what seems lots of work to workaround the
> weaknesses of git (that i was told was the greatest scm ever) i'll let the
> ones that really want to make us switch find a solution.
> 
> As always i'm open for help in explaining the problem and discussing
> possible solutions.
I you only need a snapshot of the directory, you could use git archive to get 
it. I do that at work to have subdir-exports available.

But if you need history and Co., just forgot my mail.

Greetings
Christoph