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

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Wednesday 17 February 2010 15:00:39 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> and just in case it's not obvious: one consequence of the delta
> compression is that any file's bare presence at any point in time has a
> significantly bigger impact than another file's long history. which is
> one of the reasons why i want a clean splitting which enables moving
> without leaving behind artificts. shallow/narrow clones would
> theoretically compensate most of the problem, but i predict that in the
> end everyone who is actually using the history will end up with more or
> less complete clones sooner or later anyway.

I also expect this to be the case, but new contributors will be easier to 
attract if they don't feel they want to wait for code they don't (currently) 
care about anyway and can simply "checkout" the latest version of 
extragear/kmynewapp.

Such misguided individuals can be "re-educated" once we have their patches.  
*evil laugh*
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