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

[Torgny Nyblom]

On Sunday 05 December 2010 10.30.51 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> 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.

Well this will transform the history so that kate never have been in kdelibs 
and that would be to lie, or atleast I think so, hence the delete kate before 
or after but not during.

I'm of the oppiniion that we should use the conversion to fix issues but 
hide/rewrite the past.

/Regards
Torgny