[Scummvm-devel] Switching to Git (was Re: Broken Sword 2.5)

[Max Horn]

Am 07.08.2010 um 15:09 schrieb Bertrand Augereau:

>> I don't know enough about git to give an informed answer on
>> that.
>> However, what I do know is that at work we just switched
>> from cvs to
>> git, and we just dumped everything in a single repository
>> to begin
>> with, in the knowledge that we could shuffle it round
>> afterwards, and
>> it has worked very well, much less painful than I imagined.
>> But we
>> haven't done the shuffling yet ;-)
> 
> 
> Merging renames can be a hassle on large repositories (O(n2) IIRC) (and didn't work correctly at some point in the past) but it does work well at ork with a 60GB working copy including binary assets and source code.
> Thus I think dumping brutally all the history in a git repository and grafting/refactoring/shuffling incrementally stuff we need as Henry did could be a good solution that could haste the process, as git will probably manage following all the moves.

Just somebody has to do that work. Also, messing with the repository like that would change commit ids, right? So we wouldn't want to do this after we started to make the repository public... Or am I missing something?


Cheers,
Max