[Koha-devel] git repo size (restarting a discussion)

[Paul Poulain]

Hello koha-devel,

Some months ago, Frederic started an interesting thread about
translations and their consequences on the git repository size.
The wiki page speaking of this is on
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Git_Splitting_and_Shrinking

We have decided nothing and only a few of us have expressed their opinion.
Now, there is a big patch from Ukraine, that add another 2MB to Koha
repo size (http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6434)

Frederic proposes 3 scenarios:
1- Keep history -- Create two (or more) Koha sub-projects, one for Koha
code koha-core, and one for Koha .po files koha-i18n, and keep the whole
history in both of the repositories.
2- Keep history as history -- We froze the current Git repository in
which Koha history will live for eternity as a koha-legacy repo, and
initialize two new clean and fresh repositories.
3- Keep-loose history -- Keep the history in koha-core, start fresh for
koha-l8n.
The gain is impressive (see:
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Git_Splitting_and_Shrinking#Evaluation)

When Frederic wrote the page, the repository was 177MB large. Now, it is
355 ! I think we can't continue that way, and should decide something
before 3.8 is released (in 3 weeks)

Everyone is welcomed to read the wiki page, express his opinion, I
propose to have a vote on the next IRC meeting.



Frederic = isn't there another option ? = a huge "git rebase -i" where
we would discard all commits that are related to .po files (the list
being found with
git log --oneline misc/translator/po
(i haven't checked it work, just rising the idea)

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