[Kde-scm-interest] Project layout on gitorious

[Ian Monroe]

2010/3/28 ComputerDruid <computerdruid at gmail.com>:
> On Sunday 28 March 2010 20:05:22 Ian Monroe wrote:
>> Yea I guess I was. Many projects will want to have multiple
>> repositories, or at least the option to have them, in a commons.
>> Useful for feature branches or for old historic branches. You start
>> sticking all of even just extragear/multimedia into one project and
>> that would get messy.
> People have said this before, but I'm not sure it makes sense to me. Why
> should a feature branch be in a different repo from mainline? Since repos can
> have multiple branches, having a second repo with a common ancestor seems
> pointless to me.
>
> Your other points make sense though.

You probably want the ability to do force pushes in a repo containing
feature branches, whereas its a Very Bad Thing for the mainline repo.

Ian