From: PJ Weisberg Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:09:25 GMT Subject: Re: organizing multiple repositories with dependencies Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 24 April 2012 10:17,   wrote: >> Hilco Wijbenga writes: >> >>> I'm assuming that if you have subproject S in umbrella project U and a >>> branch "topic" in U then that same branch should exist in S. >> >> No, I think that is actually very rare.  If topic branches really should >> be mirrored then U and S should be one repository.  They are too closely >> coupled to be separated.  But see the but about git-subtree and topic >> branches below. > > Too closely coupled? I do not think breaking up a project into a set > of libraries makes everything tightly coupled. I would argue the > opposite. :-) Anyway, you answer my concern below. Indeed. But when you make a branch in your main project, wouldn't you usually still want to use the master branch of the libraries? Or if there's an experimental branch in a library and you want to use that branched version, wouldn't you still use the master version of all the other libraries? What if you have two projects that both use a library, but are otherwise unrelated? If you create a branch called 'hotfix' in one project, do you automatically find your library version switching to an unrelated 'hotfix' from another project? -PJ Gehm's Corollary to Clark's Law: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.