From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Litvinov Subject: Re: RFC: Subprojects Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:28:04 +0600 Organization: AcademSoft Ltd. Message-ID: <200601161328.04985.lan@ac-sw.com> References: <43C52B1F.8020706@hogyros.de> <7vacdzkww3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 16 08:28:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EyOmt-0006j3-Op for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 08:28:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932188AbWAPH2M convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:28:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932207AbWAPH2M (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:28:12 -0500 Received: from gw.ac-sw.com ([81.1.223.2]:57804 "EHLO gw.ac-sw.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932188AbWAPH2L convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:28:11 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw.ac-sw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2892BD5D; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:28:09 +0600 (NOVT) Received: from gw.ac-sw.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gw.ac-sw.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 18131-08; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:28:07 +0600 (NOVT) Received: from lan.ac-sw.lcl (lan.ac-sw.lcl [192.168.0.69]) by gw.ac-sw.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A7C7BD41; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:28:07 +0600 (NOVT) Received: by lan.ac-sw.lcl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 96E358F11709; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:28:07 +0600 (NOVT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lan.ac-sw.lcl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39DE78CE9BC2; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:28:05 +0600 (NOVT) To: Junio C Hamano User-Agent: KMail/1.8 In-Reply-To: <7vacdzkww3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gw.ac-sw.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Saturday 14 January 2006 14:59, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Now I'll think aloud about a completely different design. > > We could simply overlay the projects. =A0I think this is what > Johannes suggested earlier. > > You keep one branch for each "subproject", and make commits into > each branch (i.e. if you modified files for the upstream kernel, > the change is committed to the branch for linux-2.6 subproject), > but when checking things out, you do an equivalent of octopus > merge across subprojects. If I cleary understand this idea it is NOT that I dreaming about. Almos= t all=20 our sub-projects are used in more than one project (imaging network lay= er=20 library). So variant with gitlink is that I willing.