From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: Something looks like CVS modules Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:58:20 +0100 Message-ID: <20051111105820.GN30496@pasky.or.cz> References: <200511111313.27273.lan@ac-sw.com> <20051111102857.GM30496@pasky.or.cz> <200511111642.25908.lan@ac-sw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 11 12:01:53 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EaWdt-0006vi-U8 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:00:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932318AbVKKK6Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:58:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932373AbVKKK6Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:58:24 -0500 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:26852 "EHLO machine.or.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932318AbVKKK6X (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:58:23 -0500 Received: (qmail 25124 invoked by uid 2001); 11 Nov 2005 11:58:20 +0100 To: Alexander Litvinov Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200511111642.25908.lan@ac-sw.com> X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Dear diary, on Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:42:25AM CET, I got a letter where Alexander Litvinov said that... > On Friday 11 November 2005 16:28, Petr Baudis wrote: > > Well, what exactly is the problem with just having multiple > > repositories? > > 1. The problem with checkout - single checkout should checkout all needed > modules to build project. Update should also update all modules. The same > with commit. > 2. Tags should be done on all modules. All modules should be able to be in the > same branch. Then just have only a bunch of directories in your project root, and that shall be your modules. :-) (CVS modules don't work like that either, do they?) > And in the same time one module should be able to exists in two or more > projects ! But this is troublesome, and doesn't fit into GIT's model at all. Do you have any concrete example of a scenario where something like this would be useful? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.