[Kde-scm-interest] [Proposal] Package splitting with thin meta-repos

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 05:52:49PM +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em Sexta-feira 29. Janeiro 2010, às 14.36.32, Matt Williams escreveu:
> > The only problem I see here is how to move a game from kdereview to
> > kdegames while keeping its history. I've been lead to believe that you
> > can't incorporate a repo into another one while keeping all the
> > history.
> 
> Sure you can. It's even easy to do that.
> 
> [demo of subtree merge]
>
the problem with that is that the history is duplicated by that -
everyone will check out two copies of the entire history before the move
if he happens to have both modules. and it grows with every move ...