From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:19:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Composing git repositories
Message-ID: <CALkWK0nq-Cfkf+s4BWiFPAg4LYefW=+ifbazLUnvDv39OWhjcQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201304010016.r310G79C032108@no.baka.org>

Seth Robertson wrote:
>
> In message <CALkWK0=CsuAWQwk5Guf0pbC4_ZEoZiwQpamcRvBGz5LJ0QGKHg@mail.gmail.com>, Ramkumar Ramachandra writes:
>
>     As a user inexperienced with recursive submodules (I've only used them
>     in this repository), I found it highly confusing.  Thanks for clearing
>     them up.
>
> You may want to investigate third party alternatives like gitslave
> http://gitslave.sf.net Depending on what problem you are trying to
> solve, it can be better (or worse) to use compared to submodules.

I'm not looking for yet another specialized tool for my special
combined-repository workflow.  I'm looking to build one generalized
tool that will be able to do various kinds of compositions equally
well.

> [...]

Thanks.  I learnt one more workflow that people want to use.

It's one large Perl script.  Quite an involved hack.