From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] commit-tree: bump MAX_PARENTS to 128 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:04:56 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <20070226121557.GA18114@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7virdnhpbt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070227105212.GA21757@coredump.intra.peff.net> <200702271131.57856.andyparkins@gmail.com> <20070227113938.GA5423@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 27 15:03:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HM2vC-0005Xw-Cc for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:03:14 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750897AbXB0ODK (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:03:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751157AbXB0ODK (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:03:10 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:42280 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750897AbXB0ODH (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:03:07 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HM2ut-0003GV-TZ for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:02:55 +0100 Received: from host-89-229-2-22.torun.mm.pl ([89.229.2.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:02:55 +0100 Received: from jnareb by host-89-229-2-22.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:02:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-89-229-2-22.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski 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 Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:31:52AM +0000, Andy Parkins wrote: > >>> there are dozens of repositories; I would now like to group them in the >>> same repo for ease of clone/fetch. >> >> It doesn't have fetch or clone support, but perhaps my poorman's submodule >> code will help you a bit, until real submodule support appears in git. > > Thanks for the pointer, but it doesn't handle one of my pet peeves with > many repositories: fetching 25 repositories takes a long time. I have a > "look at every repository and see if anything needs fetched or pushed" > script; it takes about 0.5-1.0 seconds per repository. Turning 25 > fetches into 1 makes it a lot nicer to use. > > So of all the problems hoped to be solved by submodule support, I think > your poor man's submodule support solves the ones I don't care about > (tracking external repositories with merge resolution) but not the one I > do (fetch/clone effort). :) See http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SubprojectSupport which mentions prototype submodules/subprojects implementation by Martin Waitz, with having link to submodule commit in the tree (so tree have links to trees, to blobs, and to submodules/commits). BTW. Andy, could you add note about your lightweight submodule support to this page? TIA. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git