Re: [ros-dev] Git Migration: The documentation, rossubsys and wallpapers directories

[Colin Finck]

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-lates…
>   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