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

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:22:30PM +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em Sexta-feira 29. Janeiro 2010, às 18.19.11, Oswald Buddenhagen escreveu:
> > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 05:52:49PM +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > [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 ...
> 
> If you have the old module, you do:
> 
> rm -rf oldmodule
> 
> It's not getting updated. Just remove it.
>
i though we were discussing the case of a module moving from one bigger
repository to another one ...