Re: [savannah-help-public] Gnuspeech - git repository

[Steve Nygard]

As it stands right now, you only need two repositories on savannah:
1. A clone of https://github.com/mymatuda/GnuspeechSA.git
2. A clone of https://github.com/nygard/GnuSpeech.git

That seems pretty simple to me.  I think you're making it more difficult than 
it needs to be.

I know you're pretty new to using git, and I probably should have offered to 
deal with getting the repos set up on savannah for you, but I honestly didn't 
think it would be a problem.  I guess a few years of using git has made me 
forget how confusing it can be at first.

Steve


> On 2015-09-17, at 21:55, David Hill <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Dear Marcelo,
> 
> Thanks for writing.
> 
> This is a new constraint of which I was unaware. I can only ask "Why!". At 
> what level, and what level of detail, would the histories be lost? If I split 
> into  the two repos you suggest, why would this protect the histories. Also I 
> presume you are talking about the histories prior to pushing to the Git repo 
> as an initial load -- surely the histories *after* the repo is set up on 
> savannah will continue to be generated?
> 
> If ongoing histories *are* generated, would the loss of earlier Git histories 
> matter, as they are mostly covered in the SVN repo and really represent 
> cleaning up work? But why would the existing histories not be kept (i.e. why 
> would the copies have to be shallow copies?). Is that a bug in Git that is 
> documented as a "feature"! :-)
> 
> If the ongoing histories are *not* generated after the new repo is populated, 
> then Git would have a fatal flaw, and I am sure that is not so.
> 
> The earlier histories could be covered in the README, or other documentation, 
> if you are just taling about the histories that should be in full copies.
> 
> No wonder I get frustrated. This is as bad as Dungeons & Dragons!
> 
> I am looking for the simplest, cleanest repo(s) -- preferably just one. 
> Submodules cause plenty of their own problems in a shared public repository, 
> with several subprojects.
> 
> I admit, I am still learning, will investigate further, and am open to advice 
> & suggestions.
> 
> Warm regards.
> 
> david
> 
> 
> On Sep 17, 2015, at 18:38 39PM, Marcelo Y. Matuda wrote:
> 
>> Hi David,
>> 
>> 1- If you use only one git repository:
>> 1a- If you don't use submodules, you will need to do shallow copies and you 
>> will lose the histories.
>> 1b- Or you use submodules (undesired).
>> 2- If you use more than one git repository, you will get the complete 
>> histories. With the last modifications you need gnuspeech (existing) and 
>> gnuspeechsa (new) repositories.
>> 
>> Maybe you don't want multiple repositories because Assaf Gordon said:
>> "We can certainly create six sub-repositories under the main gnuspeech, and 
>> you could use them as 'git submodules'."
>> 
>> See for example http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=guix.
>> The project has the repositories:
>> guix.git
>> guix/dhcp.git
>> guix/gnunet.git
>> etc
>> 
>> But the repos dhcp.git and gnunet.git are _not_ sub-repositories, they are 
>> separate directories. guix.git/ is a directory, and dhcp.git/ is not under 
>> guix.git/. I suppose the structure is only to have a better/cleaner 
>> directory organization.
>> 
>> And if you use multiple repositories, you may or may not use submodules, it 
>> is your choice.
>> 
>> I know it is confusing, that is why it would be good to do some experiments 
>> in a public repository (that you didn't do). Maybe you like adrenaline :)
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Marcelo
>> 
>