[Kde-scm-interest] [Kde-games-devel] Data files and the Git move

[Valentin Rusu]

On 09/04/2011 07:25 PM, Mathias Kraus wrote:
> On Sonntag, 4. September 2011 14:11:37 Stefan Majewsky wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I think it should be clear that we need to move to git somewhen, and
>> it is well known that I think it should happen sooner rather than
>> later. There are established processes for building split repos, so
>> the only problem left IMO is the problem of data files.
>>
>> 2. Git is bad for handling binary files: All history is downloaded
>> when you clone the repo. The way how GIt compresses the history is
>> aimed at text files, not at binary files. I think to remember that
>> someone who used the svn2git rules on the whole kdegames history with
>> data arrived at a 500MB repository, which is five times the size of
>> kdelibs.
>>
>> So the questions which need to be solved before the git transition
>> are: Where will the data reside? And, if in a separate repository, how
>> do the dependencies look like?
>>
>> My answer is: Data shall stay in SVN (in a new module kdegames-data)
>> for now, and be handled like the kde-wallpapers module after that.
SVN doesn't handle well binary files neither. So there'll be ne benefit
to let data files in there.
If the lifecycle (e.g. update rate) of these files is different compared
to source files (and that's I tend to believe), then it may be
interesting IMO to have two GIT repos, one with sources and the other
with data files (in text format if possible).

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