Re: [RFD] Overlapping projects

["Sean" <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>]

On Tue, May 10, 2005 12:56 am, Daniel Barkalow said:
> It seems to me like projects like cogito which are based on a core which
> is itself a project and which is also part of other projects would benefit
> from some sort of support.
>
> In particular, it would be nice if Linus could pull the changes to the
> core without getting the wrapper programs at all.
>
> I'm thinking something like having a head for cogito and a head for git in
> the same repository, where the trees for git only have the core files, and
> the commits for cogito have, in addition to a tree with only the
> cogito-specific files, a reference to a git commit that they include.
>
> It seems to me like this area contains a brilliant idea that I haven't
> had so far, and maybe someone can come up with it.
>

That sounds like a great idea and shouldn't need any brilliant ideas to
implement.  Just need to push a little more multi-head handling down into 
 git.  The Cogito build process could then include a checkout of the
git-core branch.  Would be much cleaner than the way it is handled now.

Sean