Re: [orbit-dev] Towards Git for Orbit: submodules + composite repo?

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I assume you are aware of bug 349048?
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=349048

That is a better place to discuss proposals.


(But in short, I don't think anyone
would disagree with some form of submodules, but not sure I agree with
what you propose. And to emphasize, the hard part of moving Orbit to Git
has never been putting files in Git ... the hard part will be converting
the build system). 

Thanks for your interest. 




From:      
 Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 orbit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx,

Date:      
 06/30/2014 02:08 AM
Subject:    
   [orbit-dev]
Towards Git for Orbit: submodules + composite repo?
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   orbit-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Hi all,

It looks like Orbit is the Last of the Mohicans, the only active Eclipse
project that's still using CVS instead of Git.
Orbit is indeed different from other projects, since multiple branch of
the same bundles are active and built simultaneously. It's not a regular
master + feature + maintenance branches model.

I have the impression Orbit could be a set of Git repositories: 1 for each
bundle, with their tags, like on current CVS.
Then there would be a releng Git repo that would contain the build stuff
and that would also be a composite repository referencing the right tags
of the bundle repositories. Since some recent version of Git, submodules
not only allow to reference a given commit, but also a given tag, which
would make it easy to do that.
Composite repo structure would contain the multiple folders for the multiple
version of bundles, for example:
* orbit/bundles/
** javax.servlet_2.3.0  (submodule referencing tag v200806031603 of
repo javax.servlet)
** javax.servlet_2.4.0  (submodule referencing tag v200806031604 of
repo javax.servlet)
** ...
** javax.servlet_3.1.0  (submodule referencing tag v20140303-1611
of repo javax.servlet)
** javax.servlet.jsp_1.2.0  ((submodule referencing tag v200806031606
of repo javax.servlet.jsp)
** javax.servlet.jsp_2.0.0  ((submodule referencing tag v201101211617
of repo javax.servlet.jsp)
** ...

What do you think about it?
-- 
Mickael Istria
Eclipse developer at JBoss,
by Red Hat
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