Thanks ! Migration would be a bit stiffer than I thought, but it make sense.
Jean-Laurent On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Justin Edelson <justinedel...@gmail.com>wrote: > Jean-Laurent de Morlhon wrote: > >> You say the git way of doing things is 1 project -> 1 git repository, I >> understand, and it's not very far of having a svn repo for every project in >> svn altough the release plugin do not enforce this. >> > Subversion doesn't enforce this. In fact, Subversion is designed to support > a 1 to many relationship between projects and repositories whereas Git is > designed for a 1 to 1 relationship. This has nothing to do with Maven. > > >> The current state of the release plugin force you to have the pom.xml at >> the root of your git repository or to say it differently if you have a >> pom.xml anywhere else than the root directory you can't release the project. >> (of course submodule of root located pom.xml do not count)... >> >> It's also common practice in the maven world to have a parent pom to share >> common settings. If I follow blindlessly the 1 project -> 1 git repository, >> it means I have to setup a git repository for a single parent pom ? >> > A multi-module project should be in a single git repository. An > organizational pom should be in its own repository which may, you are > correct, result in a repository with a single file in it. > > > I have the feeling, but I maybe wrong, that this is more a limitation of >> the release plugin / scm provider more than a design goal. >> > No. It's a design goal. See > https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSvnComparison#Partial_Checkout.2FUsed_bandwidth > > Justin > > >> Those who migrated to git, what do you do for the above cases, especially >> the parent pom one ? >> >> Jean-Laurent >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Justin Edelson >> <justinedel...@gmail.com<mailto: >> justinedel...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> OK. Then we're on the same page... >> >> On 4/26/10 11:32 AM, Kathryn Huxtable wrote: >> > Perhaps I wasn't clear. I don't support multiple projects in one >> repository. Definitely not. I was trying to criticize the >> svn-centric thinking, not support it. >> > >> > I think there should be a JIRA issue to make modules work, given >> that they'll be in separate repositories. >> > >> > I'm not going to file this because I have almost zero experience >> with nested projects. There have been places it would have made >> sense and I shied away. >> > >> > But the release plugin should work with git projects that have >> modules and it should do it in the standard git manner, which is >> one repository containing one project. (Distributed, of course.) >> > >> > -K >> > >> > On Apr 26, 2010, at 9:06 AM, Justin Edelson wrote: >> > >> >> Kathryn- >> >> Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean, but I think you have this >> >> exactly backwards. The "svn-centric thinking" is what's >> inspired someone >> >> to put multiple projects in the same repository. AFAIK, this is >> simply >> >> not supported by git, i.e. there's no way to clone, branch or >> tag _part_ >> >> of a repository. >> >> >> >> I am by no means a git expert, so I could be mistaken about this. >> >> >> >> Justin >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 4/26/10 9:21 AM, Kathryn Huxtable wrote: >> >>> Having recently switched from svn to git for most of my >> projects, I have an opinion. >> >>> >> >>> I think you should create a JIRA ticket and consider this a bug. >> >>> >> >>> What we're dealing with here is a bit of svn-centric thinking >> during design. It needs to be fixed. >> >>> >> >>> -K >> >>> >> >>> On Apr 26, 2010, at 8:08 AM, Jean-Laurent de Morlhon wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> We're considering migrating from svn to git, we stumble on the >> >>>> maven-release-plugin usage with git. >> >>>> We think we prefer to use a single repository for many >> independently built >> >>>> projects like : >> >>>> >> >>>> foobar-repo.git >> >>>> |-> project-foo/ >> >>>> | |-> pom.xml >> >>>> | |–> module A/ >> >>>> | |-> module B/ >> >>>> | >> >>>> |-> project-bar/ >> >>>> |-> pom.xml >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> project-bar scm url looks like : >> >>>> <connection>scm:git:ssh://somehost.nowhere:/foobar-repo.git >> </connection> >> >>>> >> >>>> This hints to the right repository but I can't write that the >> actual >> >>>> project-bar is in the project-bar subdirectory. >> >>>> >> >>>> mvn release:prepare goes well and ends succesfully. >> >>>> >> >>>> mvn release:perform fails whenever it tries to build the >> project from the >> >>>> tag. It effectively clone correctly the repository. >> >>>> But use the root of the repository rather than going into >> project-bar >> >>>> subdirectory whenever it tries to clean deploy the tag. >> >>>> >> >>>> This prevent using git and multiple projects in the same >> directory. >> >>>> Some may think we should use gitmodules but >> >>>> 1) the release plugin does not support it [1] >> >>>> 2) gitmodules is an aggregate of single repository >> >>>> >> >>>> Should I issue a "new feature" ticket into jira project >> MRELEASE or SCM ? >> >>>> Or should I fall back to the current convention of 1 project >> = 1 git >> >>>> repository ?? >> >>>> Or maybe someone managed to do it ? >> >>>> >> >>>> any advice appreciated. >> >>>> >> >>>> [1] : http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SCM-530 >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> <mailto:users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org> >> >> >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> <mailto:users-h...@maven.apache.org> >> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> <mailto:users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org> >> >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> <mailto:users-h...@maven.apache.org> >> >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> <mailto:users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org> >> >> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> <mailto:users-h...@maven.apache.org> >> >> > >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> <mailto:users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org> >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> <mailto:users-h...@maven.apache.org> >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >