[Kde-scm-interest] Sysadmin advice regarding Monolithic vs Split repositories.

[Ian Monroe]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Torgny Nyblom <kde at nyblom.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 08:26:46 -0500
> Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Torgny Nyblom <kde at nyblom.org> wrote:
> [...]
>
>> > Why would this be easier? Use these rules in the above context but
>> > with a prefix if necessary.
>>
>> That doesn't work, I've tried and its a known thing.
>
> Weird guess my rules just isn't aware of this limitation since they
> handle it just fine :)
>
> KMail here started in kdenetwork in r211 and I can track history back
> there.

So you have a monolithic kdepim git repo and it has the full history
of kmail? That being possible is news to me. Glad to hear it though.
Certainly means that creating the rules file for monolithic repos
isn't less work then split repos, either way we have to track all the
project movement.

Ian