From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: git-fetch per-repository speed issues Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:44:48 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <1151949764.4723.51.camel@neko.keithp.com> <20060704002138.GB5716@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 04 08:45:11 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 1Fxeek-0004D2-Uj for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:45:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750926AbWGDGpI (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jul 2006 02:45:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750962AbWGDGpH (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jul 2006 02:45:07 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:29097 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750929AbWGDGpG (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jul 2006 02:45:06 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Fxeeb-0004B4-ST for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:45:01 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-27-124.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.27.124]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:45:01 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-27-124.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:45:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-27-124.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:14:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> Well, you could use multiple branches in the same repository, even if they >> are totally unrealated. That would allow you to fetch them all in one go. > > One annoying thing about this is that you may want to have several of > the branches checked out at a time (i.e., you want the actual directory > structure of libXrandr/, Xorg/, etc). You could pull everything down > into one repo and point small pseudo-repos at it with alternates, but I > would think that would become a mess with pushes. You can do some magic > with read-tree --prefix, but again, I'm not sure how you'd make commits > on the correct branch. Is there an easier way to do this? Write proper subprojects support for git, or pester someone to write it (finally). See Subpro.txt in todo branch. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git