Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Implement 'prior' commit object links

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> BTW. I have lately stumbled upon (somewhat Vault and Subversion biased)
>>  http://software.ericsink.com/Beyond_CheckOut_and_CheckIn.html
>> Read about Share and Pin -- it's about subprojects (when you edit out the
>> flawed "branch as folder" approach of author).

By the way I mentioned this link only because it *might* be interesting what
others need subproject support for and how others think of it and implement
it.

> Not really.  You can easily do that by checking out another
> project in a separate subdirectory.
> 
> My private working area for git.git is structured like this:
> 
> /home/junio/git.junio/.git
>         Makefile
>                               COPYING
>                               Documentation/
>                               ...
>                               Meta/.git
>                               Meta/TODO
>                               Meta/Make
>                               Meta/TO
>                               Meta/WI
>                               ...
> 
> Notice two .git directories?  That's right.
[...] 
> Meta/.git is a separate repository that is a clone of "todo"
> branch of git.git repository.  The top-level .git repository
> does not even have "todo" branch.  I just happen to push into
> the same public repository git.git at kernel.org from these two
> separate repositories.

And top-level .git repository is told to ignore Meta directory?

Interesting idea...

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland