Re: RFC: Subprojects
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- Alexander Litvinov <lan@ac-sw.com>
- Date
- Jan 16, 2006, 07:28 UTC
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On Saturday 14 January 2006 14:59, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Now I'll think aloud about a completely different design. > > We could simply overlay the projects. I think this is what > Johannes suggested earlier. > > You keep one branch for each "subproject", and make commits into > each branch (i.e. if you modified files for the upstream kernel, > the change is committed to the branch for linux-2.6 subproject), > but when checking things out, you do an equivalent of octopus > merge across subprojects.
If I cleary understand this idea it is NOT that I dreaming about. Almost all our sub-projects are used in more than one project (imaging network layer library). So variant with gitlink is that I willing.