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in case you want a use-case with lots of submodules

From
Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@onerussian.com>
Date
Jun 19, 2017, 15:59 UTC
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Hi All,

On a recent trip I've listened to the git minutes podcast episode and got excited to hear Stefan Beller (CCed just in case) describing ongoing work on submodules mechanism. I got excited, since e.g. performance improvements would be of great benefit to us too.

In our project, http://datalad.org, git submodules is the basic mechanism to bring multiple "datasets" (mix of git and git-annex'ed repositories) under the same roof so we could non-ambiguously version them all at any level.

http://datasets.datalad.org ATM provides quite a sizeable (ATM 370 repositories, up to 4 levels deep) hierarchy of git/git-annex repositories all tied together via git submodules mechanism. And as the collection grows, interactions with it become slower, so additional options (such as --ignore-submodules=dirty to status) become our friends.

So I thought to share this as a use-case happen you need more motivation or just a real-case test-bed for your work. And thank you again for making Git even Greater.

P.S. Please CCme in your replies (if any), I am not on the list
With best regards,
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Yaroslav O. Halchenko
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