From: Petr Baudis Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:26:09 GMT Subject: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful Message-ID: <20080717202609.GA32184@machine.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <38486DD8-B4D8-4AAC-9B5F-0A8035D894DD@sb.org> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:12:57PM -0700, Kevin Ballard wrote: > There is one facet of submodules that annoys me, because it prevents me > from using them as a replacement for svn:externals. Namely, the submodule > refers to a specific repository, but not a path within that repository. I > work with svn repos that use svn:externals to peg revisions (as is > appropriate) but they all refer to various paths within the other > repositories, and the only way I can deal with that is to throw symlinks > everywhere. Actually, is this a big problem? Git can track symlinks and without adding support for overall partial checkouts, adding this would feel like too huge a hack to me. Also, when converting to a different VCS, it might be sensible to adjust your modules setup a bit as well - the requirement to include only particular subdirectory of a submodule sounds rather strange to me. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. -- A. Pierce