Suggestions for v3.4

pspeed · January 24, 2021, 6:07pm

I did it with JME blender. It’s not hard, really to transfer a directory to a new repo and keep the history.

sgold · January 24, 2021, 7:39pm

Please point me to instructions.

pspeed · January 24, 2021, 9:29pm

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/trongthanh/2779392

gistfile1.sh

# source: http://st-on-it.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-move-folders-between-git.html
# First of all you need to have a clean clone of the source repository so we didn't screw the things up.

git clone git://server.com/my-repo1.git

# After that you need to do some preparations on the source repository, nuking all the entries except the folder you need to move. Use the following command

git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter your_dir -- -- all

# This will nuke all the other entries and their history, creating a clean git repository that contains only data and history from the directory you need. If you need to move several folders, you have to collect them in a single directory using the git mv command.

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Edit: note: as I recall, you can skip some of what he talks about as our case is simpler or something. Don’t be afraid to blow the target away and try again if something goes south. I think the first time I did this it took me two times to get it right.

sgold · February 26, 2021, 5:24pm

Today I plan to archive jme3-bullet, jme3-bullet-native, jme-bullet-native-android, jme3-examples, jme3-jbullet, and related build files to a new repo in jMonkeyEngine-Contributions. I’ve decided to try Trong Thanh’s technique, only using “git filter-repo” instead of the deprecated “git filter-branch”.

Sometime in the next few weeks, I hope to delete everything specific to native Bullet (including jme3-bullet) from the Engine. Expect a pull request. Getting rid of native Bullet should simplify the task of eliminating JCenter/BinTray dependencies, which will be part of issue 1468.

I don’t have plans to remove jme3-jbullet from the Engine, but since much of its sourcecode is hard-linked to jme3-bullet, archiving them together seems like a good precaution. And this way we’ll have a recent archive if/when someone decides to remove jme3-jbullet.

Edit: The new repo is here. Note that it includes “master” branch only—none of the other branches.

Edit^2: The project builds for desktops, but the jme3-bullet-native-android build is broken due to missing files from jme3-android. For this reason, I disabled the GitHub Actions workflow.

oxplay2 · February 26, 2021, 9:50pm

what was the reason for jme3-examples into Contribution?

wasnt JME Tests core related? (jmonkeyengine/jme3-examples/src/main/java/jme3test)

pspeed · February 26, 2021, 10:14pm

Yeah, I don’t think we ever discussed moving jme3-examples… unless he’s just referring to the bullet-related parts.

The benefits to having jme3-examples in the main repo are manifold… not the least of which is making sure that they always still compile as we make other changes.

sgold · February 27, 2021, 1:00am

I have no plans to remove jme3-examples from the main repo. I archived it for 2 reasons:

So I could verify that the archived physics libraries still work.
So that we’ll have a recent archive of the physics examples if/when someone decides to remove jme3-jbullet.

sgold · February 27, 2021, 1:45am

Ready for review: pull request 1474