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Move materials from 'railsgirls' to 'materials' repo #570
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Are you planning to rewrite the main repository to make it smaller? |
After moving all the materials, you'll need to rewrite history to make the repository smaller. That's not an easy task D: P.S: Accidental close and re-open issue. My bad. |
I'm volunteering to help with the history rewriting. I've done that a lot of while making some of my private projects public. |
That's nice! I've done it once and it was a huge pain in the a--! I should start practicing 😋 |
I've never done it so wouldn't know where to start. (: But it's good to hear that someone's willing to help with this, thank you! <3 First we'll need to move all the "materials"-y files though. As I said in the other ticket, I unfortunately won't have time to work on this again until ca. the 24th. #busybusy |
Question: does rewriting work (alright, well) for repos which have many contributors, like this one? |
Yes, this works. Git will keep the original author info around. Also, there are ways to rewrite merges and such. Git's subcommand There are a few caveats:
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Do you think a new ticket should be created for the history rewriting? |
Meanwhile, user who wants to clone the repository can run |
But how would they know they should do that? Even if we put this piece of info into the README, not everyone will see it (in time; meaning, not everyone will read the readme before cloning). And I'm all for new/more tickets if they help keep things orderly. (: |
Ticket for keeping track of which materials have already been moved from the main repository railsgirls/railsgirls to the new repository railsgirls/materials.
The idea for creating a separate repository for materials - templates for posters and other materials for events, all files not directly accessible or downloadable from http://railsgirls.com etc. - originated from the main repo having become unnecessarily big. See #567.
With two separate repositories, not every (co-)organiser wanting to change just a tiny bit of information on their own local event page has to download 500MB worth of RG-related things.
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