Re: [RFC/PATCH] commit-tree: bump MAX_PARENTS to 128

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Jeff King wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:31:52AM +0000, Andy Parkins wrote:
> 
>>> there are dozens of repositories; I would now like to group them in the
>>> same repo for ease of clone/fetch.
>> 
>> It doesn't have fetch or clone support, but perhaps my poorman's submodule 
>> code will help you a bit, until real submodule support appears in git.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer, but it doesn't handle one of my pet peeves with
> many repositories: fetching 25 repositories takes a long time. I have a
> "look at every repository and see if anything needs fetched or pushed"
> script; it takes about 0.5-1.0 seconds per repository. Turning 25
> fetches into 1 makes it a lot nicer to use.
> 
> So of all the problems hoped to be solved by submodule support, I think
> your poor man's submodule support solves the ones I don't care about
> (tracking external repositories with merge resolution) but not the one I
> do (fetch/clone effort). :)

See http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SubprojectSupport which mentions prototype
submodules/subprojects implementation by Martin Waitz, with having link
to submodule commit in the tree (so tree have links to trees, to blobs,
and to submodules/commits).

BTW. Andy, could you add note about your lightweight submodule support
to this page? TIA.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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