From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:29:50 GMT Subject: Re: Composing git repositories Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20130402192017.GI28148@google.com> Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: >> Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >>> $ git clone git://repo.or.cz/git.git > [...] >>> Don't forget to "git clone -b todo git://repo.or.cz/git.git git/Meta" >>> for maintenance scripts. >>> $ >> >> Nope, it's not mandatory for everyone to use dotfiles.git in exactly >> the same way either. In other words: I'm not sitting in an office and >> working with my colleagues on exactly the same things, in exactly the >> same way; wasn't that the Subversion age? Some might decide to >> initialize a few submodules, change the URLs of some, and remove some. > > Can't a script pointed to in README handle all these things? If it came to that, it's quite possible to write one giant Perl script to do whatever I want (see: git-slave). What will I be merging and rebasing? One configuration file stuffed with miscellaneous repositories. Don't you think this is highly unpleasant? Why would I want to write slightly different scripts for each of my repositories? I'd want to write down several different adjustable knobs to use something that's well-integrated into core git, like we do in .git/config (except we can't share a .gitconfig yet). > I don't think this hostile way of explaining things is warranted. :/ Sorry about that. No hostility intended.