From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 12:04:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFD] Overlapping projects
Message-ID: <4385.10.10.10.24.1115726694.squirrel@linux1>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0505100040320.30848-100000@iabervon.org>

On Tue, May 10, 2005 12:56 am, Daniel Barkalow said:
> It seems to me like projects like cogito which are based on a core which
> is itself a project and which is also part of other projects would benefit
> from some sort of support.
>
> In particular, it would be nice if Linus could pull the changes to the
> core without getting the wrapper programs at all.
>
> I'm thinking something like having a head for cogito and a head for git in
> the same repository, where the trees for git only have the core files, and
> the commits for cogito have, in addition to a tree with only the
> cogito-specific files, a reference to a git commit that they include.
>
> It seems to me like this area contains a brilliant idea that I haven't
> had so far, and maybe someone can come up with it.
>

That sounds like a great idea and shouldn't need any brilliant ideas to
implement.  Just need to push a little more multi-head handling down into 
 git.  The Cogito build process could then include a checkout of the
git-core branch.  Would be much cleaner than the way it is handled now.

Sean