How about having a separate repository for wallpapers,
and in 'master' or whatever only have the 'last release' wallpaper +
one or 2 alternatives?

The wallpaper repo can then have a structure where there is a folder
per release,
and an additional folder for potential candidates for next releases.

On 8 September 2017 at 16:47, Colin Finck <colin@reactos.org> wrote:
> Am 08.09.2017 um 14:34 schrieb Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO:> It seems that both
> these links :
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3946538/git-clone-just-the-files-please
> , and
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1209999/using-git-to-get-just-the-latest-revision
>>
>> give a clue on how to just download the files without the history... >
>
>> [...]
>>
>>>
>>> The builder(s) can have a "working" directory, in which they check-out
>>> the
>>> different "projects" they need for the build: reactos source can be DL'ed
>>> into
>>> "working/reactos.git" ; the wallpapers, rostests etc... can be DL'ed into
>>> "working/rostests" and "working/wallpapers", then symlinks (OK on *nix &
>>> windows) into the "working/reactos.git/modules" can be created that point
>>> to "working/wallpapers" and "working/rostests" , and then we build as
>>> usual
>>> ?
>
>
> Both of your ideas destroy the automatic relationship of a specific revision
> of "reactos" with a specific revision of the modules.
>
> We don't want to start telling people to use that particular version of
> "reactos" with that particular version of "rostests". It gets even worse if
> you want to hack on both in a branch..
> So matching versions must always stay together, and this is why I want to
> keep them in a single repository, only enabled/disabled by a CMake variable.
>
> Of course, the logical next step would be overhauling our tree layout.
> But first things first ;)
>
>
>>>> * I don't get the idea of that "rossubsys" directory created in 2014..
>>>> These subsystems are all stubs, never built with modern ReactOS, and
>>>> no work has happened since "reviving" them. I would just go and remove
>>>> them again. You can always find them in our repository history.
>>>>
>>> As long as they can be found easily in the history, then ok.
>
>
> As with every Version Control System, the difficulty of finding deleted
> files in history boils down to the creativity of your used GUI :)
>
> Shortcut for you to find related commits:
>   git log --name-only | grep -C 5 rossubsys
>
>
> I have updated my conversion scripts and rules at
> https://github.com/ColinFinck/reactos-git-conversion-scripts to split off
> "documentation" into its own repository.
> Also they now perform the "reactos" directory reorganization and add the
> "0.4.7-dev" tag for git describe.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Colin
>
>
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