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From: Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk>
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Merging (only) subdirectories
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:55:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=gDdasJ1gsAgSCxQ5a3pWvTNCfiaSn5h-WUt1C@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik-d8oys9h=wFRnyt8sukTsSymaw5LGM39BU2K=@mail.gmail.com>

On 1 December 2010 12:36, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Howard Miller
> <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk> wrote:
>> What I would like to do is to be able to merge branch B into branch A
>> but ONLY stuff that concerns the theme directory. I don't think this
>> is possible. I'm reluctant to keep themes in a completely separate
>> repo as that just makes testing them more problematic.
>
> I don't know. Maybe you can use topic branch. The idea is that you and
> other theme designers branch out from a known point, then make changes
> in the theme directory only. You guys can merge from each other's tree
> because nobody would change anything outside theme directory.
> Occasionally you can merge back upstream for testing with new code,
> but don't push that merge until your theme is ready. Once your theme
> rolls out, you can either keep working on your topic branch, or throw
> it away and branch out again.
>
> Also, please consider submodules if theme dir is totally independent.
> I don't see how it makes it problematic for testing. git-subtree [1]
> might be of your interest too.
>
> [1] https://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree
> --
> Duy
>

Thanks! Again, I need to go and do some reading to see if those things
fit my needs.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-01 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-01 11:18 Merging (only) subdirectories Howard Miller
2010-12-01 11:47 ` "Martin Krüger"
2010-12-01 11:56   ` Howard Miller
2010-12-01 11:59   ` Howard Miller
2010-12-01 12:36 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-12-01 12:55   ` Howard Miller [this message]
2010-12-03 10:59   ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-12-03 11:12     ` Howard Miller
2010-12-03 20:38       ` Enrico Weigelt

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