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List:       kde-scm-interest
Subject:    Re: [Kde-scm-interest] How to split a module
From:       Ian Monroe <ian () monroe ! nu>
Date:       2013-01-28 20:22:04
Message-ID: CAHh0A5V7aJb+9FUaMaKH14Yvd8Mk6GuTRo5cznKRNzwYv-VS+w () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Marco Martin <notmart@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For Frameworks5 we are looking into doing to plasma something similar to what
> happened to nepomuk:
>
> split the "plasma" subdirectory of kdelibs in a separate repository, plus
> moving there also the parts related to plasma the are living in kde-runtime
> right now: the "plasma" and the "desktoptheme" subdirectories. Note that this
> won't affect immediate future releases since is something "after kf5"
>
> in the end the various parts should conserve their history, but at the same
> time should have it quite clean of unrelated things.

I don't really see a reason to unless you are worried about repo size
(which I could see being an issue with kdelibs).

The easiest way to split a repo is to just clone and git rm, so you
need a good reason to do anything else.

Ian
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