Re: Git repo layout for own WO projects
Re: Git repo layout for own WO projects
- Subject: Re: Git repo layout for own WO projects
- From: Kieran Kelleher <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:54:40 -0400
On Jul 19, 2012, at 3:00 PM, Maik Musall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to migrate a large project which is currently managed in subversion to git. Git experience is still limited. Besides wonder frameworks, the project consists of
>
> - one application
> - several frameworks that are more or less specific to the application
> - several more generic frameworks that we use throughout the company in a number of apps.
>
> In subversion, all those are separate projects but on the same svn server. This enables commits spanning the app itself and all affected frameworks, for example to encapsulate one change that changes the API of a framework and adapts the app to that API change at the same time.
>
> What would the git freaks among you recommend as a repo layout for that?
One svn server or one svn repo right now?
IMHO, just do a one-to-one svn repo conversion and convert the svn history to git history (plenty of articles showing how to do that, and it should be straightforward if your svn layout was always the standard trunk/branches/tags.
>
> I don't think putting it all into one giant repo isn't an option because that would require all other projects (which are dozens) we have to be in it as well. That would not only be an unmanageable mess, but we couldn't pull off git migration for everything in one step anyway.
As mentioned above, convert each svn repo to a git repo. You can even just do that now yourself on your own machine to experiment and see what it looks like.
One popular process is to
(1) use svn-mirror to make a local svn mirror (clone?) of the svn repo and then
(2) do a git-svn conversion clone on that (with a constructed authors file) and then
(3) make a final svn-meta-data-free clone of that intermediate one.
If all goes smoothly, you can write a script to update and maintain all three intermediates
live-svn --> svn-mirrror --> git-svn-clone --> pure-git-clone
Lots of articles on this if you do a google search.
>
> The other extreme would be separate repos for each app and each framework, but wouldn't that mean that we couldn't do combined commits any more across app and frameworks? Or is there another way to clarify for developers and build servers which framework commit they need to pull to match a specific app commit?
>
> What would you do?
>
> Thanks
> Maik
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