On 10.08.2011 20:10, Mathias Bauer wrote:
On 10.08.2011 19:13, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
[Nosing around OpenOffice.org I could find no source repositories,
although release tarballs are stated to be available. I probably
don't know where to look.]
look here:
http://hg.services.openoffice.org/
(I see that LibreOffice has gotten down to one, but that doesn't help
here and I'm not sure what that means in any case.)
I think that you are confusing things here. If you are talking about the
"one git" effort from LibreOffice: for historical or other reaons
LibreOffice always had more than one repository for their code base
(IIRC even more than five), while OOo always only had one until we
in my LO checkout (from before migration) i've got 18 repositories...
there seems to be a script in the top-level that can run git commands
across all repositories (guess otherwise this kind of setup would be
completely unusable).
separated the l10n stuff. As having more than one repository is a major
PITA for developers if you need them all for even the smalles build,
they decided to go back to one repository.
there still seem to be 5 repos left (but 3 of them are said to be
optional: binfilter, dictionaries and translations).
but in any case, LO uses a different model than what OOo used:
- at OOo, we used to have one repo per open feature branch (CWS);
only very recently have we actually split up the master repo by module
- at LO, all feature branches live in the same repo,
but they have always split up their code modules across several repos
As we want to be able to work on each of the cws later, we must be able
to identify each "tip" change set of all cws in this repo. This can be
done by keeping each cws in a separate branch or by bookmarking its tip
change set. The latter is easier to achieve by scripting, the former
probably would make it easier to work with the cws later. IIRC ease of
scripting won.
the problem with HG named branches is that they are part of the commit
metadata, so it's not possible to retroactively introduce them (without
some effort), while bookmarks are trivial to add.
otherwise, good summary :)
Regards,
Mathias
regards,
michael
