Re: Workflow: split repository?

From: Jan Wielemaker <wielemak@science.uva.nl>
Date: Oct 12, 2007, 14:57 UTC
Message-ID: <200710121657.01256.wielemak@science.uva.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20071012143043.GD7865@efreet.light.src>

Hi Jan,

On Friday 12 October 2007 16:30, Jan Hudec wrote:

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> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 14:21:39 +0200, Jan Wielemaker wrote:
> > Does this make sense?
>
> It might make more sense to convert bit by bit, to separate git
> repositories. Would save you some git-filter-branch work.

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> > Is the only way to create a GIT repositiory right away from a subset of
> > the CVS for which we want to preserve the history?
>
> No, it's not. It will save you work if you can do as much splitting as
> possible during the conversion, ie. convert the bits you know will be
> separate separately (and combine them using submodules as appropriate).
>
> But if you have bits that will take a lot of work to factor out, you can
> convert to git, make the other code ready to use a submodule and than use
> git-filter-branch to extract the right bits of history for the submodule.

Thanks! git-filter-branch looks a bit overwhelming, but I think I can manage :-) I'll do the simple things in separate conversions.

	Cheers --- Jan