Re: [ecf-dev] git mv, duplicated projects and graduating projects out of

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/28/2011 10:00 AM, Markus Alexander Kuppe wrote:
> On 01/28/2011 06:35 PM, Scott Lewis wrote:
>
> > Truly...this can't be done?  Isn't there a way in Buckminster+git to
> > materialize only from some modules/parts of a git repository?  This
> > seems strange to me that such restrictions can't be done.
> There is no such restriction in Buckminster.

I don't understand...are you saying that restricting the materialization 
to only consider projects that are *not* in <ecf git repo 
base>/incubation is not possible with Buckminster?  Or it's possible 
with Buckminster's materialization rules, but because the SCM structure 
has been hidden from Buckminster (next para)...that Buckminster doesn't 
have the necessary info?

> It's rather the way the
> ECF's SCM<>  Buckminster integration has been set up. The intention is,
> that the SCM structure is hidden from Buckminster. This means that the
> Buckminster metadata does not have to change whenever something is
> moved/deleted/added in the SCM.

Markus and all...look...like most/all other things that remain 
incomplete/undone with ECF, I know that all of this is probably 
ultimately a matter of insufficient resources (i.e. your and my 
time)...but if it's technically possible, I do think having flexibility 
to exclude parts of a repo would be useful for this use case 
(incubation) and perhaps others.

As all can probably tell, I've been forced to waste a couple of days 
worth time (mine, Markus', others) already...diagnosing and dealing with 
this...time that could have been spent testing, documenting, and/or 
dealing with other contributions (xml-rpc, etc), or otherwise working 
toward the ECF 3.5 release.

<stuff deleted>
> What I would suggest is to:
>
> 1) diff osgi/bundles/
> org.eclipse.ecf.osgi.services.remoteserviceadmin and
> incubation/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.osgi.services.remoteserviceadmin

How would this be done?  (i.e. create a patch is I guess what you are 
suggesting).  Command line git client?

> 2) remove osgi/bundles/
> org.eclipse.ecf.osgi.services.remoteserviceadmin (git rm)
> 3) move
> incubation/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.osgi.services.remoteserviceadmin to

Will this (step 3) even work?...given that after 2 the repo will still 
have info about 
osgi/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.osgi.services.remoteserviceadmin ?


> osgi/bundles/ (git mv)
> 4) Apply patch created in step 1

I'm going to either need someone's help/assistance with this...i.e. 
someone that's more comfortable with the git operations above than I 
am...or it's going to take me a while.  As you might deduce, I don't 
have time for the necessary education of the subtleties of various git 
operations...e.g. diff, rm, mv...and of course there will likely be 
subtleties that use up time.  So...any volunteers? (that are familiar 
with any/all of these operations?)

Lacking volunteers, I'm more inclined to simply delete the src and 
project files from 
/incubation/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.osgi.services.remoteserviceadmin/* 
while leaving the directory intact.  Objections to that?  The incubation 
history doesn't really matter...and won't it still be present anyway 
even if this is what's done?

Scott