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[rmf-dev] proposal for simplifying git repository structure
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Hello RMF developers,
while working with the RMF source code I found out that the current separation of the code into 5 git repositories produces quite some overhead and might lead to inconsistencies within the overall RMF code. Thus I propose to merge the 5 repositories into a single repository.
What do you think? Any objections?
Any experience on how to merge git repositories? It is important that we keep the change history.
regards,
Mark
PS: some details
(1)
Current situation:
The RMF code is separated into 5 git repositories:
/gitroot/rmf/org.eclipse.modeling.rmf.core.git
/gitroot/rmf/org.eclipse.modeling.rmf.core.reqif10.git
/gitroot/rmf/org.eclipse.modeling.rmf.core.rif11.git
/gitroot/rmf/org.eclipse.modeling.rmf.core.rif12.git
/gitroot/rmf/org.eclipse.modeling.rmf.pror.reqif10.git
(2)
Some thoughts about the current repository structure:
* initial setup of the development environment takes some time
* many development activities do not only affect a single repository. I often need to push to more than one repository.
This takes time and overall consistency of the code needs to be ensured manually.
* The repositories are quite small. Thus, there is no need (yet) to separate them due to performance or memory consumption reasons
* Setting up automatic builds is more complex since the checkout procedure needs to be repeated for each repository
(3)
Proposal:
I think we should merge the current repositories into a single new repository and remove the old repositories.
/gitroot/rmf/org.eclipse.rmf.git
(4)
Further reading and thoughts about repository granularity can be found at
[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=345471
(In short: it is a good practice to have a single repository per project)
[2] http://git.eclipse.org/c/
(an overview over existing git repositories)
(5)
Does anybody know how to merge git repositories?
It is important that the change history is merged into the new repository.
