| Re: [rmf-dev] proposal for simplifying git repository structure |
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Hello Mark, I have another cumbersome point regarding 5 different repositories: Whenever I want to create a release tag, I have to do this 3 times (modeling.rmf.core (git), modeling.rmf.core.reqif10 (git) and modeling.rmf.pror.reqif10 (git)). Also here it would be easier to have only a single repository. Best regards, Lukas Am 27.01.2012 13:17, schrieb Mark Brörkens: 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. _______________________________________________ rmf-dev mailing list rmf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx http://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/rmf-dev |