[rspec-devel] Back to one repository?

[David Chelimsky]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Pat Maddox <pergesu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brian, Alex Chaffee and I were talking about the repository layout
>  just now.  Alex pointed out that there's a lot of overhead when using
>  the rspec project... I've written a bunch of rake tasks to reduce
>  that, but even with those there's overhead.  And as we figure out more
>  tasks, we'll have to write more rake tasks to automate some of the
>  stuff.  For example, if you git:pull and there's a conflict, you have
>  to go resolve the conflict and continue the rebase.  Does it make
>  sense to write a git:continue command that will examine any repos that
>  had a conflict and are in need of a rebase continue?  I'm not sure at
>  this point, but it's one of many potential questions.
>
>  Alex suggested that we go back to one repository, and change the
>  plugin installation process.  Basically the only reason the repos are
>  split right now is because there's no way to check out directories,
>  and we want people to easily install the rspec and rspec-rails
>  plugins.
>
>  What if instead of separate repos, we had people put the entire
>  codebase under vendor/rspec?  Then they could run a script like
>  vendor/rspec/install_plugins that would export the rspec and
>  rspec-rails dirs to vendor/plugins.
>
>  I realize there will probably be some apprehension given that David
>  did a lot of work to split the repos in the first place, and the
>  headaches over the past couple days, but I think it's a very good idea
>  that's worth considering.  If nothing else, we should keep it in mind
>  over the next couple weeks, and see what growing pains we experience
>  that might be avoided by a unified repo.

The work that I've done (and that you've done, Pat) should not be a
consideration. If there is a better way, we should pursue it.

I have a lot of thoughts about this but no time to present them right
now. I'll follow up over the weekend.

David