On 28.12.2012 01:54, Dave Abrahams wrote:
on Thu Dec 27 2012, Beman Dawes <bdawes-AT-acm.org> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote:
Hmmm.. Let's suppose for a moment that the modularization effort resulted in a repository which didn't include the current history. There's no reason that the old SVN has to go way. I guess it could be made read only.
Of course! That's been the plan all along, just as we didn't blow away the old CVS repo when we switched to SVN.
The point at which SVN becomes read-only has been shown on the schedule and on the action plan right from the start.
See https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/MoveToModularizedGit and https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ModCvtSchedule
It would also be convienient that the web browsing feature be re-enabled.
Good point. The load on the IU server should be a lot less after we switch to GitHub.
There will also always be the GitHub browser usable on the converted history repository.
These all sounds like poor substitutes for actual history. If I run "git log" in program_options checkout, I really would like to see all changes ever made to what is boost/program_options and libs/program_options in the current layout. I certainly don't expect that repository to contain entire history of Boost, and so it should not be 200+ MB. But I think conveniently looking at history is one of the primary use cases of a version control system. And one of the advantages of git was supposed to be effective storage of entire history. If we're going to require that I poke at some other git repo, or svn, or commit mailing lists, or anything else for such a basic task, then I suppose we can switch to RCS just as well. Thanks, Volodya