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

[Frederik Schwarzer]

[Albert Astals Cid - Samstag 04 September 2010 23:05:33] 
> A Dissabte, 4 de setembre de 2010, vàreu escriure:
> > [Christoph Cullmann - Samstag 04 September 2010 21:04:59]
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > The doc/ folders do not change that much, do they? In that case it
> > might not be the best choice to download them every day just to
> > figure that out. Or is there a way to see if a certein folder
> > contains changes without downloading it?
> > 
> > What about using symlinks? If you have checkouts of all modules
> > anyway (which you do for string extraction, right?), you could
> > have another folder with symlinks to the doc/ folders, which
> > should look like the externals from the script's point of view.
> 
> Yeah, i don't care about the l10n.kde.org machine, my concern is translators 
> that want to generate the translated documentation,

Ah, that's a different story, yes.

> i don't think they will be 
> happy if we force them to download all KDE repo.

Certainly not.

As for your problem with "git archive --remote", I found:
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#How_do_I_clone_a_subdirectory.3F

Regards