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Re: Project- vs. Package-Level Branching in Git

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EWEnrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
Date
Jan 29, 2011, 19:33 UTC
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* Thomas Hauk <tom@shaggyfrog.com> wrote:
> Imagine a project that uses liba and libb, which both reference libc.
> To use Git, I'd have to have copies of libc existing in three
> repositories, and copies of liba and lib in two repositories each. 

No, just leave them as they are: separate packages. Period. Let a dist buildsystem handle the project's build process, including dependency resolving, packaging, etc.

> Git just doesn't seem to scale when it comes to componentized
> projects. 

These "componentized" projects (as you call it - I'd rather call it the exact opposite) suffer from an ideology that doens't know to differenciate between the fundamental stages of an software building up to deployment, they try do to everything in one fat blob - that's why fail or burn expensive resources frequently. (I've seen that often enough in my last 15 years of software engineering ...)

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  1. Thomas HaukJan 27, 2011
  2. Andreas EricssonJan 27, 2011
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJan 27, 2011
  4. Thomas HaukJan 27, 2011
  5. Jay SoffianJan 28, 2011
  6. Jakub NarebskiJan 28, 2011
  7. Enrico WeigeltJan 29, 2011
  8. David AguilarJan 29, 2011
  9. Enrico WeigeltJan 30, 2011
  10. Jakub NarebskiJan 31, 2011
  11. Enrico WeigeltJan 31, 2011
  12. Marc BranchaudJan 28, 2011
  13. in-gitvger@baka.orgJan 28, 2011
  14. Eugene SajineJan 28, 2011
  15. Enrico WeigeltJan 29, 2011
  16. Enrico WeigeltJan 29, 2011

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