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

[Chani]

On January 29, 2010 14:43:42 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> 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 ...

no, they were discussing moving a small repo (say, 1 app that's in review, 
review not being a repo any more) into a large repo (say, kdegames). :)

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