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

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

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). :)

-Peff