[Kde-scm-interest] Re: git conversion rules for split layout

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Terça-feira 05 Outubro 2010, às 10:38:19, Thomas Zander escreveu:
> In svn there is a usability bug that if you delete an application its
> terribly  hard to find out which revision the deletion happened in. To get
> around this problem in KDE we first had a wiki page with the name and then
> the revision number of the deletion.
> Unfortunately the task of writing the full url for that checkout was still
> to  obscure and even the experts needed to think a while coming up with
> the magick checkout line.
> So in the end we got the current solution; which is to move code to an 
> 'unmaintained' repo.
> 
> In git this problem totally goes away; an application inside a module like 
> kdeedu can easily be tracked down in the history and revived (it even
> doesn't  cause the repo to get bigger).
> Likewise, as you probably noticed, you don't delete or move at all when
> using  the split approach as that makes no sense.

That doesn't include the case of a full-module delete.

So we'll still have a class of modules in the "unmaintained" state. But that's 
something outside of the repository, not inside.

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