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

[Michael Jansen]

On Saturday 30 January 2010 02:11:18 Chani wrote:
> 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). :)


Which is pretty convenient in case one like to see the world in nice colors. But i just raise the 
point of kdevelop moving out of kdesdk (and sometime in the future back).

And would like to hint about aseigo and kossebau thinking about moving all apps out of kdeutils and 
closing that shop.

And about some problems we have with applications depending/requiring stuff that is at home in 
kdebase. We would have to move some of that stuff into kdelibs.

We would loose all that flexibility. if we consider moving with history as an essential point.

Mike