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

[Tom Albers]

----- Original Message -----
> 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.

Could not agree more. 

+ I like 1 thing at a time. Transition will be difficult enough for some people, combining it with build system changes / layout changes is not a good idea.

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers