Re: [boost] Git Modularization Review no vote heads-up

Hi Daniel,

Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2013 um 10:12 Uhr Von: "Daniel James" An: boost@lists.boost.org Betreff: Re: [boost] Git Modularization Review no vote heads-up

On 23 May 2013 06:28, Dave Abrahams wrote:

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Rewriting _published_ history is most strongly discouraged by the Git people, for several good reasons. *If* there is to be any rearrangement, it should happen before the switchover, so it doesn't bork people who are doing work based on the history originally published.

Maybe that could be avoided by having two repositories: the historical repo, which would retain perfect history, and the working repo, which would have the desired layout. The working repo could be created after the conversion, and have enough history to be useful for general development. The meta project could switch its reference over once the new repository has been set up. Would also prevent any extra delay to deal with this.

Since the odeint developers want to use their git repository (https://github.com/headmyshoulder/odeint-v2) rather than the one created by the conversion, that distinction might be required there anyway.

Well, odeint is a rather new library. And for those it makes sense to just add the existing repository as a submodule on acceptance. AFAIK the odeint maintainers are just waiting for this to be possible. Yours, Jürgen -- * Dipl.-Math. Jürgen Hunold ! juergen.hunold@gmx.eu * voice: 0049 4257 300 ! Fährstraße 1 * fax : 0049 4257 300 ! 31609 Balge/Sebbenhausen * mobil: 0049 178 186 1566 ! Germany