[Kde-scm-interest] [Kde-games-devel] kdegames' move to Git

[Ian Monroe]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Tom Albers <toma at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:48:32 -0700, Chani <chanika at gmail.com> wrote:
>> every single time the matter was brought up, the end was the same. so
>> anyone
>> who wants to comment further on this thread: please, *please* go read
> the
>> archives first.
>
> Ok, but some things have changed since we moved from gitorious to our own
> solution, which might be relevant.
>
> We now have redmine. Redmine is used to create the structure we need, as
> in extragear, playground, kdereview and the main modules. This means that
> moving an application from playground to kdereview to extragear is as easy
> as reparanting the project page to the right parent (kdereview and after
> that extragear).
>
> But this gets complicated when all apps are into one big module based
> repository. Moving KMail from kdepim to extragear would not be possible
> while preserving the history. This is imho important to know and consider.

I don't think this is true. It's not something you'd want to do
everyday, but splicing and dicing git repos is possible.

Ian