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Split sources into repositories #3

Closed Vanuan closed 11 years ago

Vanuan commented 12 years ago

Maybe it is more appropriate to setup different repo for each project?

pocketbook-free commented 12 years ago

Please tell why is it necessary to split to separate repositaries?

Vanuan commented 12 years ago

There are several advantages. When you split repositories, you can import upstream projects and rebase your changes on top of the latest revision. It's easier to review changes and submit them. And you'll always have the latest revision and updating would be very easy. Also you could work on one project at a time, updating them independently. So you don't have to download all the source code which is heavy, only parts you're interested in. Also it will be faster, because git doesn't handle large projects very well.

To download all projects to your machine Android project use a repo tool (http://source.android.com/source/version-control.html). But I think git submodules would be fine.

Official mirror of linux source code is here, on github https://github.com/torvalds/linux Webkit: git://git.webkit.org/WebKit.git Poppler: git://git.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/poppler FBReader: https://github.com/geometer/FBReaderJ And so on.

Vanuan commented 12 years ago

Different devices probably use different versions of software. So one project should be set up for every device.

I could easily setup all the repos if I knew which versions was the basis of your modifications.

Vanuan commented 12 years ago

Moreover, do you have any plans how would you make your sources up-to-date? If you're using svn, there's a tool git-svn to make your life easier. Maybe you could even switch to git as your main version control system?

Vanuan commented 12 years ago

As an example you can see how it's organized in OpenInkpot: http://git.openinkpot.org/