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Re: Using repo to work with multiple GIT repositories

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Dec 8, 2008, 16:23 UTC
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<20081208162340.GE31551@spearce.org>
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kanagesh radhakrishnan <rkanagesh@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 
> My work currently resides in four different source trees, namely:
> 
>    * bootloaders   (git://192.168.10.1/bootloaders)
>    * kernel           (git://192.168.10.1/kernel)
>    * applications  (git://192.168.10.1/apps)
>    * build             (git://192.168.10.1/build)
> 
> I maintain them as four different git repositories.  They are hosted
> on a local server enabling any other developer to be able to clone
> from one of the trees, make changes, commit locally and then push to
> the git server.
> 
> I was browsing through the Android source code and found that they
> have a similar situation where code is maintained in a large number of
> independent GIT repositories.  The tool 'repo' is being used to
> initialize and sync each tree.

FWIW this was cross-posted to repo-discuss, which is possibly better suited to discussion about "repo". :-)

I posted my answer there this morning:
http://groups.google.com/group/repo-discuss/browse_thread/thread/67fdbba9619084
-- 
Shawn.
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  1. kanagesh radhakrishnanDec 5, 2008
  2. Shawn O. PearceDec 8, 2008

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