[Kde-scm-interest] ideas to git conversion

[Robert Wohlrab]

I don't know which version of linux repo do you use but I get my sources from 
Torvalds repo and every version I need is in it. Older version from bitkeeper 
time isn't there because tools for the conversation didn't exist when the 
first development started inside the git repository.
There exist a specialised pack for that purpose [1] which you can graft 
together with a linux tree to get development tree before the conversation to 
git was done.
If you would try to make a new tree (with non-grafted) history you must run 
`git filter-branch` to rewrite the history... which would make all cloned 
repositories more or less unmergable with linus tree... so not the best 
decision (and you must retag everything).

I don't think we must not copy that failure in linux history.

[1] http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GraftPoint

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Robert Wohlrab