From: Christoph Jahn <christoph.jahn@gmx.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linking multiple Git repositories for version tracking
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:12:47 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hic25v$17i$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: op.u574cwxqn3qeew@klee
I have had the very same issue a while ago when still using SVN (shame on
me ;-). SVN offers a special tag "svn:externals" which is something like
symlinks. Having used it for a while I came to the conclusion that such a
thing, as well-intentioned as it may be, is something I want to avoid by
all means.
There are two reasons for that:
- Lock-in
- It is conceptually wrong
The conceptual part -which I consider to be more important- is mostly
about the fact that we are talking about dependency management and not
version control any more. Do I really want to "hide" dependencies inside
the VCS? Also, there may be different dependencies for compilation and
testing. That's why I chose to use Maven for this task.
My $0.02
--
Best regards,
Christoph
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-10 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-01-08 17:03 ` Linking multiple Git repositories for version tracking James Beck
2010-01-08 18:34 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-01-09 5:25 ` Michael Witten
2010-01-10 8:12 ` Christoph Jahn [this message]
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