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

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:32:42PM -0500, Ian Monroe wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Tom Albers <toma at kde.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
it's something you wouldn't ever want to do, as "carving out" a module
will invalidate all sha1 references. one can workaround that to some
degree by putting the old sha1s in the commit messages, but that's a
crutch that won't work with many tools.
the one thing which we have found to work without problems is merging
a stand-alone repo into an aggregator module.