I am +1 given there is no easy way to accomplish what we want exactly. I still think the history is valuable though and especially so during the component migration work when the deep understanding of functionality and tradeoffs of modules being replaced is vital.
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Bill Farner <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > -=Bill > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Kevin Sweeney <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 >> >> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Zameer Manji <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hey, >> > >> > I would like to inform everyone that there is a review >> > <https://reviews.apache.org/r/37666/> out that imports the java code we >> > depend on from Twitter Commons into our tree. The current approach of the >> > import is a large patch on RB with a description that explains the origin >> > of the code. The benefits of this approach ensures our commit history >> > remains linear and easy to bisect. However this approach means that our >> > repo will not contain the history of these files. Currently I believe >> there >> > is no value in preserving history since we do not intend to maintain this >> > code for a long time and the history of files is easily available on >> > github. >> > >> > Please +1 or -1 this approach. >> > >> > -- >> > Zameer Manji >> > >>
