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From: Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Subprojects
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:20:13 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2006.01.12.07.20.12.411828@progsoc.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200601121125.33696.lan@ac-sw.com

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:25:33 +0600, Alexander Litvinov wrote:

> On Thursday 12 January 2006 10:46, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> > I really miss this feature. This is the last stopper for moving from CVS
>> > to git for out project.
>>
>> What about using nested checkouts? They work great with git as-is,
>> just add an .gitignore file.
>>
>> As Linus points out, there are many good reasons why a top-level
>> commit should _not_ commit the nested subproject. And once you are
>> observing that rule, what's left then? git status and git diff <HEAD>
>> can show an aggregate of top-level and nested subprojects, but that's
>> ease-of-use -- not something only.
>>
>> What is your show stopper?
> 
> I would agree to make separate commits for each sub project.
> 
> 1. I need to have ability to make tags, branches thru all subprojects.
> 2. Update (pull) sould update each subproject, it is hard to update them by 
> hands.
> 3. The need of some sort of checkout script (can be solved by storing this 
> script in base project, but it would be much nicer allow git fetch all 
> subprojects)
> 
> Nothing else I can imagine.

It sounds like you want 'config-manager',
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/config-manager, it doesn't
support git (yet) but I can't imagine it is hard to add that support in.

Cheers,
Anand

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-12  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-11 15:58 RFC: Subprojects Simon Richter
2006-01-11 16:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-01-11 16:52   ` Simon Richter
2006-01-11 17:42     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-11 19:43       ` Simon Richter
2006-01-11 20:06         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-14  8:59       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-14 19:16         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-14 19:32           ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-01-14 20:02             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-14 20:30               ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-01-14 20:38                 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-15  0:28                   ` Martin Langhoff
2006-01-15  0:49                     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-15  1:55                       ` Tom Prince
2006-01-16  5:06                     ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-01-16 19:08                       ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-01-16 20:20                         ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-01-16 22:25                           ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-01-16  7:48               ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-14 20:16           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-15  1:01             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-16 10:44             ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-01-16 20:49               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-17  5:46                 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-01-17  6:18                   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-17 14:09                     ` Petr Baudis
2006-01-17 16:45                       ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-01-17 17:33                         ` Craig Schlenter
2006-01-17 17:38                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-17 17:41                     ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-01-18  1:41                       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-18  3:49                         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-18 11:47                           ` Alexander Litvinov
2006-01-18 13:29                             ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-18 17:06                             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-18 18:21                         ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-01-18 18:49                           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-18 19:29                             ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-01-23  1:22                           ` Petr Baudis
2006-01-23  0:50                 ` Petr Baudis
2006-01-16  7:28         ` Alexander Litvinov
2006-01-16 10:16           ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-20 13:16         ` Uwe Zeisberger
2006-02-21  7:57           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-12  3:19 ` Alexander Litvinov
2006-01-12  4:46   ` Martin Langhoff
2006-01-12  5:25     ` Alexander Litvinov
2006-01-12  5:39       ` Martin Langhoff
2006-01-12  8:36         ` Alexander Litvinov
2006-01-12  8:58           ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-12  7:20       ` Anand Kumria [this message]
2006-01-12 13:38     ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-01-15 15:07 ` [RFC][PATCH] Cogito support for simple subprojects Petr Baudis
2006-01-15 17:38   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-15 19:15   ` Junio C Hamano

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