Re: What is in git.git

From: Alexander Litvinov <lan@ac-sw.com>
Date: Jan 21, 2006, 10:36 UTC
Message-ID: <200601211636.02340.lan@ac-sw.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v3bjiuhxb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Somehow first mail was not reached the list, resending it.

> The "bind commit" experiments for subproject support is coming
> along rather nicely.  Near the tip of the "pu" branch, there
> are:

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> I think the first four are more-or-less well debugged.
>
> I am reasonably confident that I did not break rev-list for
> repositories without "bind" commits, but I have no clue how
> correct it is when dealing with commits with "bind" lines.  This
> is the last major remaining piece of the puzzle, and the rest is
> just the matter of scripting.  I'd be sending out a request for
> help on the rev-list in a separate message.
>
> There still is no barebone Porcelainish work done using these
> changes.  The attached script demonstrates a superproject that
> binds two subprojects with their own development histories.

I tested this with your script. It works well. But I have found some downsides.

subpro and main are separate projects and master is the join of them. If I want to modify subpro I have to checkout subpro branch, edit files. When I have to got to master and bind new version of subpro to it. Worse, if I will edit subpro's files bined to master branch changes will go to master branch instead of subpro's history. As a result all other project (imagine master-2) that use subpro will lose this change.

1. Can I bind some branch instead of tag (commit) ?
2. Is it possible to commit changes of subpro's file in master branch into 
subpro branch to make this changes visible to master-2 ?

Thanks for attention. Alexander Litvinov.