From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastien Subject: Re: RFC: Creating a new org-contrib.git repository Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:18:40 +0100 Message-ID: <87boapwpfj.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> References: <874ngmgqfg.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87ehflob19.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42038) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFB3L-0004BA-KD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:18:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFB3J-0001ki-Oj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:18:43 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:41354) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFB3J-0001kZ-J4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:18:41 -0400 Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id 15so5346735wgd.4 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:18:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87ehflob19.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (Achim Gratz's message of "Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:56:50 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Achim Gratz Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Achim, Achim Gratz writes: >> On the technical side: does anyone know what incantations needs to >> be done for this? I use git filter-branch (and its --tree-filter >> option) from time to time but I'm definitely not an expert. What >> we want at the end is: > > Rewriting the history so that it stays meaningful will not be easy and > it will lose (or alter) information whenever a file moved between > contrib and core in the past. This is not just a few incantations, you > would have to write specific scripting to do this. Yes -- my experiments show me this so far, it is not easy. So really question the usefulness of the whole move in fact. > I'd rather try to get as much contrib/ as possible into core and then > re-assess what's left. I see your point, but this cannot be done without asking the Emacs developers what they consider being really useful for Emacs. Again, not something that I will have time to do before 8.0. Let's continue to see if this is desirable and possible without too much dirty work, and maybe postpone this after 8.0. -- Bastien