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

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

> 2010/1/29 ComputerDruid <computerdruid at gmail.com>:
> > So basically I'm missing what action you need to do across the whole
> > of KDE that isn't a "get everything" or "update everything".
> 
this statement doesn't give the impression that you read the rest of this
and other recent threads on this list ...

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 07:12:27PM +0100, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> As I said before, IMHO the need for something like 'svn externals'
> should be fulfilled in git (i. e. adding a new subcommand to the git
> suite, not creating our own command).
> 
ack

in particular, the idea to make a simple replacement is incredibly
naive. such things don't stay simple. ever.

> Oh, and regarding 'git clone --recursive', well, '--recursive' should
> be the default, not the option. IMHO it should be exactly the
> opposite: 'git clone --no-recursive' should be the option.
> 
there are more stupid defaults like that. the problem with making new
things the default is that such changes often meet a lot of stop power.
so many contributors don't even bother trying.