From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:58:50 GMT Subject: Re: updating only changed files source directory? Message-ID: <453F517A.7060000@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: Daniel Barkalow escreveu: >> I'm just starting out with GIT. Initially, I want to use experiment with >> integrating it into our binary builder structure for LilyPond. >> >> The binary builder roughly does this: >> >> 1. get source code updates from a server to a single, local >> repository. This is currently a git repository that is that >> tracks our CVS server. >> >> 2. copy latest commit from a branch to separate source directory. >> This copy should only update files that changed. >> >> 3. Incrementally compile from that source directory > > The terminology in the git world is, I think, a little different from what > you expect. We call the thing that contains all of the tracked information > (what you're calling the repository) the "object database"; what we call yes, you hit the nail on the head. > referencing an external one. So you need a repository for each source > directory (because it keeps track of what commit is currently in the > source directory), but it doesn't need to have its own complete object > database, which is what you're trying to share between all of them. OK. This makes sense; thanks for this pointer. How can I set the object database? I found GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, but can I write a config file entry for that? > built it in that directory. You fetch into the single bare repository > from upstream, and then pull into each source directory from the bare > repository; this will do the minimal update to the contents of the source > directory automatically. yes, this works. Thanks! --