kdelibs, kdebase moving to Git this Saturday

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 02:56:33PM +0100, Christoph Feck wrote:
> On Saturday 29 January 2011 13:16:32 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > I disagree, wallpapers *are* part of the history, if i want to go abck to
> > 4.5 and install kdebase i want to get what we had, not something less
> > because that new shiny tool we have is not able to cope with wallpapers.
> 
that won't work anyway, as we are rewriting history due to the splitup.

> I don't know how much work that is, but if possible, only the default 
> wallpaper should always be in the repository (including those of kdm, ksplash, 
> or whereever they appear).
> 
that makes no sense conceptually. once something is in the repo, it will
stay there forever. and the default wallpaper changes at least once per
release. so by doing a history cut now, you'd only postpone the problem,
and create a royal mess on the way.
shallow clones (whenever they may come) should fix the history bloat
problem for local clones, so there isn't a really strong reason
long-term to externalize the multimedia data.
i'm not against such a "carve out" (i'm even slightly pro, especially
short-term), but it would have to be done properly.