[Kde-scm-interest] Sysadmin advice regarding Monolithic vs Split repositories.

[Torgny Nyblom]

On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:04:40 +0200
Tom Albers <toma at kde.org> wrote:

> Dear Scm-interest,
> 
> As promised, the people behind the sysadmin team would like to give
> advice regarding the monolithic vs split repositories issues. We have
> tried to stay away from the community/social issues and focus on the
> technical consequences such a decision involves - such as how to
> setup the different services we will setup.
> 
> Our advise is to use a split repositories approach.

I agree that this makes the most sense, but I wonder how the kdepim
module(s) (and others?) should handle this with regards to preserving
history in the conversion process.

In the kdepim module(s) there has been (and are) a lot of files/subdirs
moving between the different applications and libraries. Writing rules
for all of these moves so that history is complete for all would be
gits would be near impossible.

@pim: How should we handle this?
@scm: Any advice?

> The sysadmin team would like to setup the services real soon now, so
> we ask this list to come up with a final decision about the setup. To
> be clear: whatever you decide, we will implement it to the best of our
> capabilities.

Thanks for the work in investigating and documenting this.

/Regards
Torgny

P.s. Please remove the other list if the answer is not for all. D.s.