[wildfly-dev] Handling history with the build split

[Aleksandar Kostadinov]

Stuart Douglas wrote, On 06/18/2014 03:25 AM (EEST):
> Hi all,
>
> So something we have been thinking about is how best to handle history
> when doing the split, there were three obvious options that we looked at:
>
> 1) Copy the repo for each split, and just delete what is no longer needed.
>
> This means that you have full history, however each repo is 130Mb+, so
> once you have 4 or more repos you are looking at a very large amount of
> data to checkout a full WF server, which will probably put off potential
> contributors.

FYI wrt #1
git clone --reference can help reducing size for people that clone more 
of the repos.

I agree though that perhaps #3 would be simpler and would work for most 
of the people.