[Kde-scm-interest] Re: converting kdelibs/kdebase to git

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 08:12:20AM +0100, Torgny Nyblom wrote:
> An objection here, to do this with the rules will silently alter
> history.
>
i think that's the whole idea here. the entire kate history is already
in a separate repo, so unless one'd want to be able to check out
historically accurate revisions of kdelibs (which is a pipe dream
anyway), there is no reason to duplicate it.

fwiw, kate's approach to put everything actually related into one repo
is an explicit violation of the kdelibs vs. kdebase-runtime concept
(though they circumvented it in the first place by putting kwrite under
apps and kate into kdesdk). as it happens, i think they are right with
doing that ... the same should happen with kdesu and probably some other
modules, and the libs/runtime split should be a distributor-only thing.