From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 10:13:29 GMT
Subject: Re: how to filter a pull
Message-ID: <20070504101329.GA16446@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7vwszpzs33.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 2007-05-03 11:21:04 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> If I were doing this today, I would probably use separate
> repositories, next to the primary project, to host the whole tree of
> other projects, adjust the build procedure of the primary project to
> borrow the whole of these other projects not just subtree -- and/or
> have appropriate symlinks in the primary project that point into
> relevant subtrees in the neighbouring repositories that host these
> other projects.

It should be straightforward (and efficient) to make a script that
takes an existing branch and makes a parallel branch that contains
only one subtree of the first branch. This derived branch can then be
used as a subproject or whatever.

Or is there some obvious reason why this wouldn't work, or would be
inconvenient?

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle