Re: how to filter a pull

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: May 3, 2007, 20:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20070503203719.GA2755@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <71295b5a0705031232l3dc6a61dh7c0d7f993536fab7@mail.gmail.com>

marc zonzon, Thu, May 03, 2007 21:32:52 +0200:

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> I need in my packages to produce rc scripts and udev conf, hotplug
> scripts. They depends of the base rc functions of openwrt (int etc),
> the config system (in lib/config), and the hotplug scripts
> (/etc/hotplug.d), and I need to patch some of these scripts.
> I would like to stay in sync with the development of openwrt, the
> change in the patched files are quite frequent but usualy merge
> easily. Of course this is only one part of my dependencies, the main
> tree that is imported in my project is the original package that I
> modify to tailor it to openwrt.

It looks like you need neither subproject nor partial checkouts (another Git-specific feature which is just about to come into existence). Just manage everything in one repo. Git deals with large, big and even huge repos splendidly. It's the monstrous repos which still make problems, but people working on them.