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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: After-the-fact submodule detection or creation
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 08:37:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071207073728.GA2847@steel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ir3bp5sf.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org>

Michael Poole, Fri, Dec 07, 2007 04:01:04 +0100:
> It seems like using the current submodule code would mean that this
> kind of import would need two passes over the foreign repository,
> rather than one if the branch could be created after the parent tree
> is initially imported.  I can live with that -- it is a rather unusual
> case -- but maybe there is a better way.)

Import the core module in a branch all by itself, and merge it in
every support branch?


    Supp1: o-o-o-----o-o-o-o-o-o-o
		    /
    Core:  o-o-o-o-o
		    \
    Supp2: o-o-------o-o-o-o

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-07  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-07  3:01 After-the-fact submodule detection or creation Michael Poole
2007-12-07  7:37 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2007-12-07 21:35   ` Michael Poole

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