From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:33:32 GMT
Subject: use cases for git namespaces
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_gczLajro0aZ5ftUmt_vhxA+yAr_5pCZknJ2bxhykYRXQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

It seems to me that whatever namespaces can do, can functionally be
done using just a subdirectory of branches.   The only real
differences I can see are (a) a client sees less branch clutter, and
(b) a fetch/clone pulls down less if the big stuff is in another
namespace.

I would like to understand what other uses/reasons were thought of.

I looked for discussion on the ml archives.  I found the patch series
but could not easily find much *discussion* of the feature and its
design.  I found one post [1] that indicated that "part of the
rationale..." (being what I described above), but I would like to
understand the *rest* of the rationale.

Pointers to gmane are also fine, or brief descriptions of uses [being]
made of this.

[1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/175832/match=namespace

Thanks

-- 
Sitaram