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List:       kde-scm-interest
Subject:    Re: [Kde-scm-interest] Project layout on gitorious
From:       Ian Monroe <ian.monroe () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-03-29 1:46:08
Message-ID: f680fec51003281846l113fc3afta9944902d4dd43c1 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2010/3/28 ComputerDruid <computerdruid@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
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