Re: How many repositories question

Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
> One more point. It is fairly easy to merge several repositories together
> later if you want them together for some reason, but splitting up a
> repository after copies and moves around the repository have been made
> becomes essentially impossible.

Here I have to disagree on both counts.

1. There is a tool that allows a repository to be split up despite
move/copy (described here:

    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/svn.html

), though I haven't tested it. Note that in this case, revisions do not
have to be renumbered (the split can be done so that resulting
repositories have gaps where the missing revisions were located).

2. On the other hand, merging N repositories forces at least N-1 of them
to have their revisions renumbered, and (if not done carefully) results
in a non-chronological history. The problem with renumbering revisions
is that lots of emails, bug reports, commit log messages, etc probably
refer to the old revision numbers which will have been rendered meaningless.

Michael

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Received on Sun Nov 12 08:38:50 2006