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

[Riccardo Iaconelli]

On Friday 12 February 2010 18:52:43 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> - one should not have to resort to a different repository to actually
>   checkout an older version. you can't do that with a subtree merge.

is it really such a frequently used feature? i think this is really a minor 
thing.

> - the actual data should not be duplicated. the repositories will be
>   large enough as is. that's the antithesis of a subtree merge.

how big would the real impact be? i agree this is a problem if it gets too 
big, I'm just trying to get realistic ideas based on realistic data. Of course 
I think we should be wiser in the future once we know about this limitation 
and not put the whole oxygen icons in kdelibs. :-)

> i can remember more:
> - git speed

Sure, it will be slower. However, I used it for years on modules as big as 
kdelibs or kdebase, and never had a problem, it just hangs a bit the first 
time (~20 secs), but it's still very bearable. Do you think it's a real 
problem?

> - merge conflicts
> - side effects of fixing history

What do you mean?

Bye,
-Riccardo
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