Re: Mozilla version control requirements and git

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Jon Smirl wrote:

>> Oh, and "partial tree pulls for localisers". Perhaps git-cvsserver can
>> help there? Localisers can just use TortoiseCVS and get a checkout of
>> the language pack subdir.
> 
> Partial repo pulls and an issue to. The mozilla repo has much more
> than a browser in it, it also has a large mail/news program. A partial
> repo pull may not be what is needed for git, instead git needs a
> partial repo checkout.

Or better support for subprojects.

I think you can fake subproject support using separate repositories
for subprojects, in the directory matching the one in the whole project,
and the project repository, where we pull/push subprojects into.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git



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