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

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dissabte, 4 de setembre de 2010, vàreu escriure:
> 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.

We just need the contents, can you give a hint how to use git archive?

I tried
$ git archive --remote git://git.kde.org/konversation/konversation.git data
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

That is obviously wrong :D

Albert

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