From: Petr Baudis Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:58:20 GMT Subject: Re: Something looks like CVS modules Message-ID: <20051111105820.GN30496@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <200511111642.25908.lan@ac-sw.com> Dear diary, on Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:42:25AM CET, I got a letter where Alexander Litvinov said that... > On Friday 11 November 2005 16:28, Petr Baudis wrote: > > Well, what exactly is the problem with just having multiple > > repositories? > > 1. The problem with checkout - single checkout should checkout all needed > modules to build project. Update should also update all modules. The same > with commit. > 2. Tags should be done on all modules. All modules should be able to be in the > same branch. Then just have only a bunch of directories in your project root, and that shall be your modules. :-) (CVS modules don't work like that either, do they?) > And in the same time one module should be able to exists in two or more > projects ! But this is troublesome, and doesn't fit into GIT's model at all. Do you have any concrete example of a scenario where something like this would be useful? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.