[Kde-scm-interest] Fixing the plasma-desktop and plasma-workspace repositories

[Thiago Macieira]

Em seg 23 jun 2014, às 21:49:59, Eike Hein escreveu:
> It's possible to fix this locally with grafts, but not server-side
> since grafts aren't part of the git protocol.
> 
> I'd like to propose that we try to fix this by redoing the splits
> correctly and replaying the new history on top of the result. This
> means effectively doing a force push to public repositories in the
> end, but I think the consequences would eventually weigh less than
> the loss of history. It'd certainly need some sort of grace period
> and announcement schedule though, and it'd probably best to delay
> it until after the first Plasma 5 release or even the first bugfix
> release.
> 
> Thoughts and opinions?

I recommend doing a client-side graft. Just create a script that clones the 
unsplit repository and adds the graft, like we do for Qt.

Replaying the history is easily done, but creates so much trouble 
afterwards...

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