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

[Riccardo Iaconelli]

On Friday 12 February 2010 13:13:43 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> > Hire someone to make a better git? Or what?
> 
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Personally, that's the one I like the most.
> 
> Not a "new git" but to improve git in regards to submodules,
> externals, etc, working hand-to-hand with upstream.
> 
> KDE is not the first project which has faced these problems and so far
> noone has been able to provide a good solution. If we can afford
> paying someone to fix these issues for us, and the solution will the
> accepted upstream, that's the way to go.
> 
> Of course, we would first need to decide on what solution we want,
> something which is not clear at the moment IMHO.

I must say I agree. To me it looks like we just need to be able to move a 
folder from repo A to repo B without loosing history. Not that I am certain 
that this is feasible, I don't know git internals too much, but it looks like 
the feature we miss.

and for those of you who like schematics... ;-)

before
 A/blabla
 A/...
 B/...

after
 A/...
 B/blabla
 B/...

This was the only issue I can remember brought up by the solution of non 
splitting modules. Do you see any other flaws with it? This is considering 
that playground possibly ends up in a branch (if someone else can't think of a 
better solution).

Bye,
-Riccardo
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