[Kde-scm-interest] git conversion rules for split layout

[Thomas Zander]

On Friday 10. September 2010 17.21.13 Arno Rehn wrote:
> On Friday 10 September 2010 17:00:09 Niko Sams wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > as the major issue with the split repository layout are the missing
> > conversion rules,
> > i'd like to contribute some rules. I wanted to start with kdeedu.
> > 
> > The question I have is how proceed with those kdeedu subdirectories:
> > cmake/
> > data/
> > doc/
> > libkdeedu/
> 
> To simplify matters, I'd write conversion rules for the monolithic module,
> then use git mv & co. to move and distribute these subdirectories you
> mentioned to the appropiate apps and libs and then use git-filter-branch to
> split off individual kdeedu subdirectories into their own repositories.

This would imply you are rewriting history; if you do the above I suggest you 
just don't convert the old history and just start fresh. It would have 
practically the same effect as you would never be able to get back to a state 
where things compiled as they were before the conversion
 
> I think that's easier than writing svn2git rules for possibly every file in
> those shared subdirectories you mentioned.

This would be even easier.
-- 
Thomas Zander