Re: [announce] colgit: manage git repository collections

From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Sep 6, 2007, 13:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20070906131525.GA7261@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070906101115.GA29360@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

also sprach martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> [2007.09.06.1211 +0200]:

> With SVN, I'd have a repository for each machine, which existed only
> of svn:externals references pulling in other repos and thus
> assembling my home directory. git-submodule isn't quite designed for
> this sort of stuff, and thus I came up with colgit.

You might want to read over this short discussion between Peter and I on why git-submodules aren't up for the task:

  http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2007-09-06,Thu&sel=578#l979

Cheers,

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