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

[Thomas Zander]

On Wednesday 8. September 2010 16.09.48 Ian Monroe wrote:
>  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.

Wrong; the tracking of individual apps or tracking of whole projects (i.e. 
subdirs at a time) is a big difference in amount of effort.
Imagine code moving from koffice/libs/pigment to koffice/plugins requires no rules 
to write (since its all under one subdir and git handles those moves without 
being told to) or having to track those movements yourself in explicit rules.

The difference is that in-module moves are part of history and should be kept as 
moves. Whereas split modules require you to figure thouse out and you 
essentially have to rewrite actual history.
-- 
Thomas Zander