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Re: Notes on Using Git with Subprojects

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A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 28, 2006, 03:47 UTC
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Jeff King wrote: [...]

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> One thing that I believe some people have requested for subprojects is
> to avoid downloading files/history for subprojects you're not interested
> in.  I think this could be faciliated in this scheme by only cloning the
> heads of the subprojects you're interested in (there would need to be
> special machinery to handle this at the root level if we want to allow
> making root commits without necessarily having all of the subprojects).

In what I'm suggesting, commits are local to a project's working directory repository and are pushed somewhere else to be recorded long term. Since projects are stand alone, possibly with dependencies, working on a (sub)project without having other associated (sub)projects is accomplished by checking it out.

> A first step to this would be an argument to git-clone to allow cloning
> only a subset of refs.
Something like this?
	git-init-db
	git-fetch <repository> <refspecs>
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  3. A Large Angry SCMSep 26, 2006
  4. Johannes SchindelinSep 26, 2006
  5. A Large Angry SCMSep 26, 2006
  6. Daniel BarkalowSep 26, 2006
  7. Shawn PearceSep 26, 2006
  8. A Large Angry SCMSep 26, 2006
  9. Martin WaitzSep 27, 2006
  10. Johannes SchindelinSep 27, 2006
  11. Martin WaitzSep 27, 2006
  12. Johannes SchindelinSep 27, 2006
  13. Sven VerdoolaegeSep 27, 2006
  14. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2006
  15. Michael S. TsirkinSep 28, 2006
  16. Jeff KingSep 28, 2006
  17. Martin WaitzSep 27, 2006
  18. Johannes SchindelinSep 27, 2006
  19. A Large Angry SCMSep 27, 2006
  20. Johannes SchindelinSep 27, 2006
  21. Shawn PearceSep 27, 2006
  22. Rogan DawesSep 27, 2006
  23. Shawn PearceSep 28, 2006
  24. A Large Angry SCMSep 28, 2006
  25. A Large Angry SCMSep 28, 2006
  26. A Large Angry SCMSep 27, 2006
  27. Jeff KingSep 27, 2006
  28. A Large Angry SCMSep 28, 2006
  29. Jeff KingSep 28, 2006
  30. Shawn PearceSep 28, 2006
  31. Jeff KingSep 28, 2006
  32. Shawn PearceSep 28, 2006
  33. Shawn PearceSep 28, 2006
  34. Johannes SchindelinSep 28, 2006
  35. Martin WaitzSep 28, 2006
  36. A Large Angry SCMSep 28, 2006
  37. Martin WaitzSep 29, 2006
  38. A Large Angry SCMSep 26, 2006
  39. A Large Angry SCMOct 1, 2006

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