Re: Will git have a baseline feature or something alike?

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 2, 2008, 21:29 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90803021329g29b19234wab6b626c9d47e7ab@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <47C95823.5090006@vilain.net>

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> wrote:

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>  > And last, KDE repos should most probably be split into submodules.
>
>  Mmm.  Everyone always says that; what it really needs I think is someone
>  to really take the conversion on board and come up with a workable plan
>  on this front.  I think the counter-argument to this was "but you always
>  want to have 70% of the repository checked out for development".
>  Counter-counter argument is "yes but they don't always need to be deep
>  clones".  Anyway, it's not my baby, just thought I'd let you know about
>  it :-)

That sounds a lot like the x.org submodule split. AFAIU, it did involve some relatively minor changes to configure/build scripts to handle the submodules being built somewhere other than in a subdir of the main project. Nothing earth shattering, just small changes to how the build works, and I think after the initial shakeout everyone's happy and the development pace is quite a bit faster & more adventurous.

All of this from bits I read in the x.org dev lists, and some developer blogs - IANAX.OD

cheers,