Re: on subtree checkout

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 24, 2008, 11:53 UTC
Message-ID: <200802241253.11271.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200802241153.58009.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

Dnia niedziela 24. lutego 2008 11:53, Robin Rosenberg napisał:

> söndagen den 24 februari 2008 skrev Jakub Narebski:
>> Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> writes:
>>> söndagen den 24 februari 2008 skrev Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy:

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>>>> I'm going to implement subtree checkout. The plan is to save "index
>>>> prefix" in GIT_DIR/prefix and update git commands to use index prefix
>>>> when accessing the index. If I'm heading a wrong way, stop me now.
>>> 
>>> Make it multivalue as having more than one directory checked out is
>>> quite reasonable in for example Eclipse, where there are hundreds of
>>> plugins all listed at the top level, but you only need a checkout
>>> for those that you actually want to change. KDE would be another
>>> example where you want to mention multiple roots.
>> 
>> IMHO both in case of Eclipse plugins, and KDE modules/apps/whatever
>> it would be much better to use submodules support than partial
>> checkouts.
> 
> 400 submodules... noway.

Way.

IHMO rule of thumb is: use submodules support if projects are independent, or at least largely independent.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland