xwiki/xwiki-platform — comment on commit f80970508a4b18fc83327d707171f9771c838f0f
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By vmassol:

I didn't forget. I thought about it and I thought it wasn't worth it since the history is still there. Also I think it's not correct because it means we'll duplicate (copy/paste) history which will be in 2 locations. Hence when we compute stats about history of repos (as I did recently with my new committers macro) it'll be wrong, finding twice as many commits as it should have.

IMO the only case when it's good to copy the history is when you discard the source repository and don't use it anymore.

Anyway this is a good topic to discuss on the list if you wish.