From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Prince Subject: Re: RFC: Subprojects Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:55:50 -0700 Message-ID: <20060115015550.GD9672@socrates> References: <43C537C9.4090206@hogyros.de> <7vacdzkww3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <43C951B6.5030607@gmail.com> <43C95F69.7090200@gmail.com> <7vk6d2fsu6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <46a038f90601141628n2ec32e8fy7fc23d8d7884c0f2@mail.gmail.com> <7v4q4671tg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 15 02:54:50 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Exx6W-00088o-04 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 02:54:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750841AbWAOByp (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:54:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750842AbWAOByp (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:54:45 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:14640 "EHLO pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750840AbWAOByo (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:54:44 -0500 Received: from pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.84]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IT400DTI2N8ZK30@l-daemon> for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:54:44 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.150]) by pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IT400JTD2N8RC80@pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:54:44 -0700 (MST) Received: from socrates ([68.148.44.80]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IT4004QD2N7LEA0@l-daemon> for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:54:44 -0700 (MST) Received: from socrates (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by socrates (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0F1to3H008101 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:55:50 -0700 Received: (from cougar@localhost) by socrates (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k0F1toh2008100 for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:55:50 -0700 In-reply-to: <7v4q4671tg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 04:49:15PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Martin Langhoff writes: > > > I am with gitzilla on this one. Let the projects have their own > > bootstraping mechanisms, using make, ant or whatever catches their > > fancy. One of the great things about git is that it doesn't assume > > that it's being used by all the projects in the world -- thanks to > > Linus' disregard for arbitrary metadata and to your git-cherry > > implementation, it's all about the content -- and so it interoperates > > great with Arch, SVN, CVS, etc. > > > I hope this settles this issue and nobody would bring up "Wee > want subprojects" ever again ;-). > But since we can import everything into a GIT repository, and have (some) tools for pushing changes back, we can pretend that it is being used for every project in the world. Tom