Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 12:08:31 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nclayton@lehman.com> To: Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@snipe.rim.or.jp> Cc: Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@sky.rim.or.jp>, doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-translate@ngo.org.uk, jdp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resolution: FDP reorganisation Message-ID: <19990625120831.H15628@lehman.com> In-Reply-To: <199906251011.TAA71704@daemon.snipe.rim.or.jp>; from Motoyuki Konno on Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 07:11:35PM %2B0900 References: <19990623231441.N42442@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <37724BD3.D1C377CC@sky.rim.or.jp> <19990625104500.F15628@lehman.com> <199906251011.TAA71704@daemon.snipe.rim.or.jp>
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On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 07:11:35PM +0900, Motoyuki Konno wrote: > [snip] > > Obviously, we'd lose the record of who did the actual commit (because it > > would be me) and the precise time that the commit happened would be lost. > > But the CVS deltas would be preserved. > > I cannot understand why you want to do such a complicated way. > "Repository copy" is much more easier, I think. I agree with you in theory. However, John Polstra, one of the repository managers, has already said that his free time to do this work is limited, and that repository copies are fiddly anyway, with the increase of risk involved. So he asked me to come up with a way that minimises the number of repository copies that are necessary. Which is what I've done. Obviously, there's a trade off in terms of the information that can be preserved if you can't do a repository copy, and what I'm trying to do is strike the right balance between what we keep and what we lose. Keep in mind that either approach involves (essentially) rebuilding the doc/ repository from scratch. My original approach would retain just the histories for the English docs. The second approach would retain the logs of what changes were made, and the commit messages, but wouldn't retain information (in the log's internal format) of when the changes were made or who by. That may or may not be acceptable. The third approach, which retains all the information, would be a repository copy, but JDP has already indicated that he is strongly opposed to doing that, and knowing the amount of work involved I can totally empathise with this viewpoint. If there's another alternative that I haven't considered, I'm more than willing to hear it. [ Of course, "Forget about it" isn't, IMHO, an option. This issue will keep coming up as the repository gets bigger and we have more translations in it -- the bigger the repository, the more pain and effort involved in making the switch. ] N -- --+==[ Systems Administrator, Year 2000 Test Lab, Lehman Brothers, Inc. ]==+-- --+==[ 1 Broadgate, London, EC2M 7HA 0171-601-0011 x5514 ]==+-- --+==[ Year 2000 Testing: It's about time. . . ]==+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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