[racket-dev] proposal for moving to packages: repository

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> At Wed, 22 May 2013 14:50:41 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > That's true, but the downside of changing the structure and having
> > files and directories move post structure change will completely
> > destroy the relevant edit history of the files, since it will not be
> > carried over to the repos once it's split.
>
> It's possible that we're talking past each other due to me not getting
> this point.
>
> Why is it not possible to carry over history?
>
> The history I want corresponds to `git log --follow' on each of the
> files that end up in a repository. I'm pretty sure that such a history
> of commits can be generated for any given set of files, even if no
> ready-made tool exists already (i.e., 'git' is plenty flexible that I
> can script it myself).
>
> Or maybe I'm missing some larger reason?
>

I was going to comment on the same thing.  While a naive use of "git
filter-branch" might not retain the history, it should be entirely possible
to do something a little more intelligent and keep that history.
Essentially each of the new repositories could keep the entire history of
the original repository, followed by a massive move/rename, then moving
forward with an individual package.

--Carl
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