Re: RFC: Subprojects

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 12, 2006, 05:39 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90601112139l2f2bde5bx15102a1afcf4ec25@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200601121125.33696.lan@ac-sw.com>

On 1/12/06, Alexander Litvinov <lan@ac-sw.com> wrote:

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> > What is your show stopper?
>
> I would agree to make separate commits for each sub project.
>
> 1. I need to have ability to make tags, branches thru all subprojects.

I suspect that this is a bad idea -- for the same reason as committing to a subproject is a bad idea. The subprojects most likely have their own external repositories -- and lifecycles of their own. The same headname/branchname won't do.

> 2. Update (pull) sould update each subproject, it is hard to update them by
> hands.

A simple shellscript can help you here.

> 3. The need of some sort of checkout script (can be solved by storing this
> script in base project, but it would be much nicer allow git fetch all
> subprojects)

As you say, a bootstrapping shellscript can sort this out.

Sounds quite doable ;-)

(have to warn you though -- git is quite addictive. there's no going back...)

cheers,

martin