old svn history does not appear on github about collada-dom HOT 3 CLOSED

the history comes with a lot of baggage like fx, rt, viewer, windows makefiles, ps3 makefiles, etc. it is very difficult to support them and if they are present in git, people would try to use them and create issues for them. unfortunately there's no way to preserve the history of only the dom library.

most users in the community i participate in only care about the collada-dom parser library and i'm only capable of supporting collada-dom parser development. therefore it was a very conscious decision to only include the dom library with cmake files in this repository.

i'm glad that you've cloned the entire history of collada-dom! perhaps you can merge whatever changes we make in this repo with your clone to always keep it up to date.

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On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Rosen Diankov [email protected]:

the history comes with a lot of baggage like fx, rt, viewer, windows
makefiles, ps3 makefiles, etc. it is very difficult to support them and if
they are present in git, people would try to use them and create issues for
them. unfortunately there's no way to preserve the history of only the dom
library.

most users in the community i participate in only care about the
collada-dom parser library and i'm only capable of supporting collada-dom
parser development. therefore it was a very conscious decision to only
include the dom library with cmake files in this repository.

I agree with that. Personally I also only care about the parser.

What about cloning the whole history then simply removing everything you
cannot support? That is what I was thinking about.

My concern is that, with half-abandoned projects like this one, tracking
who did what, when, and why is a hassle. Adding a fork to the game will
only make it more complicated.

So, if git can help with these questions (and it does!), we should use it.
What do you think?

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checking out this git repo: 3.72Mb

checking out your copy (which is also outtaded): 211Mb

even if you remove all the files, the history sticks around and people will have to download 200Mb+ of it.

if you find a way to store just the history of the "dom" folder source files so that we don't have to keep around history for unused files, then i would be more than happy to put it in this git repo.

in any case, when i want to view the history of collada-dom, i would most likely reference the old subversion repo or your git repo.

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