After 2.9.7

[Dmitry Kazakov]

> 1) I'm ok with forking Krita repository. We already depend from quite few
>> libraries from calligra libs. That is mostly, KoCanvasBase, KoDocumentBase,
>> flake and pigment.From all four only pigment looks
>> reusable enough for me to have a separate repo. In our code we hack quite
>> a lot to adapt flake and document classes for our needs.
>>
>> 2) One more benefit of forking to another repository would be that the
>> size of the repo would become lower (correct me if I'm wrong). Since "Krita
>> for Cats" manual is still semi-official way of building
>> Krita on some platforms this is really crucial for many users. Quite a
>> lot of people still have GPRS or limited internet, so downloading 700MiB
>> just to try Krita *is* a barrier. Another problem is
>> translators. Basically, they need to have a full source tree around to be
>> able to check where the string comes from.
>>
>
> The repo size is one reason I'm actually considering to drop all
> history. Create a fresh new repo with cleaned-up code only and start
> again from commit 0. I know we check history a lot, but that history is
> the history of Krita up to Krita 2.9.x, which is in the calligra repo.
>

This will make our life really hard :(
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Dmitry Kazakov
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