From: Ciprian Dorin, Craciun <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:17:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature Enhancement Idea.
Message-ID: <8e04b5820909231117k401e7500h822a61cb41db5c0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5b5e291e0909230412r3ce143abgd990c36e27736bae@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Deon George <deon.george@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/23 Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>:
>> Have a look at git submodules ('git help submodule'), or the git-subtree
>> script that has been discussed on this list a couple of times [1].
>
> git submodule looks like it will do a little of what I want - I'll do
> some more reading on it to see exactly how it works. Thanks for the
> tip.
>
> My initial look at it seems to miss an important feature that my layer
> idea would provide. It looks like git submodule assumes that
> everything in a subdirectory belongs to a repository - with my layer
> idea, I would want any layer to share the same directory structure and
> files (or content) belonging to a distinct layer's repository.
>
> IE:
> the base might provide
> plugins
> plugins/README
> modules
> modules/README
> lib/common.php
>
> and a layer might provide
> plugins/a.php
> modules/a.php
> lib/a.php
>
> another layer might provide
> plugins/b.php
> modules/b.php
> lib/b.php
>
> If I was a C developer, I'd have a go at creating it - but I'm just a
> php developer :)
> ...deon


    Practically you want something like unionfs [1] but for git. Right?

    But probably you could settle for something like Hg Queues [2]. Is
there similar for Git?

    Ciprian Craciun.

    [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionFS
    [2] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MqExtension