From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Mozilla version control requirements and git Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:17:13 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <9e4733910609020731k25ce3a0aw7a84542f8cd516f6@mail.gmail.com> <46a038f90609021819v6d427f0eh69bc13b30ef6b692@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910609022029q9cb9ba9m87cbc37e8d6f4ad7@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Sep 03 11:17:38 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 1GJo6k-0003qm-BK for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:17:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750968AbWICJRT (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Sep 2006 05:17:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750986AbWICJRT (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Sep 2006 05:17:19 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:55185 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750932AbWICJRS (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Sep 2006 05:17:18 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GJo6O-0003mu-Tv for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:17:16 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-21-28.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.21.28]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:17:16 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-21-28.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:17:16 +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-81-190-21-28.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: Jon Smirl wrote: >> Oh, and "partial tree pulls for localisers". Perhaps git-cvsserver can >> help there? Localisers can just use TortoiseCVS and get a checkout of >> the language pack subdir. > > Partial repo pulls and an issue to. The mozilla repo has much more > than a browser in it, it also has a large mail/news program. A partial > repo pull may not be what is needed for git, instead git needs a > partial repo checkout. Or better support for subprojects. I think you can fake subproject support using separate repositories for subprojects, in the directory matching the one in the whole project, and the project repository, where we pull/push subprojects into. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- VGER BF report: U 0.877495