From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: Composing git repositories Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 12:20:17 -0700 Message-ID: <20130402192017.GI28148@google.com> References: <51537A7B.7050206@web.de> <5154AACC.7050006@web.de> <51597A37.1010301@web.de> <20130402185426.GG28148@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jens Lehmann , Phil Hord , Junio C Hamano , Git List To: Ramkumar Ramachandra X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 02 21:20:54 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UN6lH-0001Kb-5G for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:20:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932257Ab3DBTUX (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Apr 2013 15:20:23 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f52.google.com ([209.85.160.52]:34647 "EHLO mail-pb0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752353Ab3DBTUW (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Apr 2013 15:20:22 -0400 Received: by mail-pb0-f52.google.com with SMTP id mc8so408798pbc.25 for ; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:20:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=77bORXRwwiDpQGvNSmEQtoqkyPKTmle++aaxLOhQHOw=; b=Vu5N1Xf4QV/LswVirRMK74dghQPHAzE1VRYv2G9xpeLH2x3wFa3gHrWD7DYOOWQykK E0tPL+uCeQhIC+zekjTOWH3llynB666fYW0R7FrW1e24a0WPYOsTituHRJzj+e1LLpub PrUd2GrVxIzG1UpSt/TtahyFQLVftDfaTRGZgyKgjcNofadrtNn7555OROdBjN+LjY8x ZNrSFiDcUdVQH/P9hIul+8nIGT1gehp7YaJ/HeVKAFx/I+seq4wriEwueFXbnNtJednK 2W1nyvEg5zJhRn/4yLE5SgFo9Z8gdPR89El6G7MBb0WvVjnjXr+PVaOVwspHhOmeP+l3 TOzg== X-Received: by 10.66.168.6 with SMTP id zs6mr26715990pab.5.1364930421911; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:20:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from google.com ([2620:0:1000:5b00:b6b5:2fff:fec3:b50d]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fc8sm3450872pad.21.2013.04.02.12.20.19 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:20:20 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> $ git clone git://repo.or.cz/git.git [...] >> Don't forget to "git clone -b todo git://repo.or.cz/git.git git/Meta" >> for maintenance scripts. >> $ > > Nope, it's not mandatory for everyone to use dotfiles.git in exactly > the same way either. In other words: I'm not sitting in an office and > working with my colleagues on exactly the same things, in exactly the > same way; wasn't that the Subversion age? Some might decide to > initialize a few submodules, change the URLs of some, and remove some. Can't a script pointed to in README handle all these things? > I'd want my private fork to have commits changing "initialize > submodule quux" to "don't initialize submodule quux", and be able to > rebase that on top of upstream. These would be patches to comment or uncomment repositories in the list used by your "setup" script. > Why are you leaning towards solutions > for very narrow usecases? I don't think this hostile way of explaining things is warranted. :/ Yours, Jonathan