[Kde-scm-interest] Have we arrived to a dead end?

[Robert Wohlrab]

Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> Hi,
> so, to recap from last two immense threads (not counting KOffice one
> now), seems like we're stuck between two situations:
> 
> - Not splitting the main modules. Would work great but will fail once
> we try to move stuff between the modules (I still think that this is
> not a huge usecase but.. okay)
> - Splitting the main modules. Then we're doomed in a mess of
> dependencies, repos, metarepos, and so on. Distros like slackware
> won't forgive us, KDE developer groups (e.g. kdeedu) will hate us, and
> personally I'm not a big fan of it either.
> 
> This looks like a dead end to me.
> 
> So, what are we doing now? Giving up on git and telling people to just
> screw up and use git-svn? Think more? Hire someone to make a better
> git? Or what?
> Does anybody have concrete suggestions, comments, or anything else?

No, we should try mercurial. I don't know why everyone is so "git"ish and 
still everybody here hates it. So if there are problems involved in the git 
stuff then search for a solution and I think the solution is mercurial with 
its narrow clones. Just keep _everything_ in hg and we have atomic moves, tags 
etc.

And look for example at googles analysis of git vs. mercurial.... mercurial is 
just superior to git.
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Robert Wohlrab