Re: Checking out src with Mercurial

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 11:56:20AM -0400, matthew sporleder wrote:
> > <quote>
> > the way git works (tracking whole trees at a time, never single files),
> > that ends up being very painful, because it's an "all or nothing"
> > approach.
> >
> > So I'm hoping that if you guys are seriously considering git, you'd also
> > split up the KDE repository so that it's not one single huge one, but with
> > multiple smaller repositories
> > </quote>

Just so that above point is not missed. Above point is not out of date. It
applies to both hg and git - splitting a large repository when using
distributed ones.

> This is out of date.  FreeBSD is moving to git.

Interesting... I could not find that in official documents as yet. Yes,
there have been git mirrors.