Re: VCS comparison table

On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:34:22 -0400
"Jon Smirl" [off-list ref] wrote:

That is possible but I wish git had tools supporting this. What do you
do about core developers that want the full repo syncing to other
developers that only have a partial copy?

I don't think that will be an issue at all.

As an example, take the current Linux kernel repo maintained by Linus,
and one of the repos containing old historic kernel data imported into
Git.  Graft in the old historic data into your clone of Linus' repo,
and you're done. Anyone can pull from you even if they don't have the
historic data themselves.

With a little work you could do the same thing with the Mozilla data.
After you decide where to make the split, you'd have to rewrite the
commit history for the "current" repository, so that it terminates
at an initial commit rather than having a direct connection to the
historic data.  After that, the repos could be used just as described
above, separately or graphed together.

As far as I know though, there is still no way to use the git protocol
for the initial pull of such a combined repository.  You have to pull
both repos separately and graft them together locally.  This sounds
harder than it is though and can be scripted easily.

Sean