Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful

> Dnia czwartek 17. lipca 2008 22:40, Kevin Ballard napisał:
>> On Jul 17, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Petr Baudis wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:12:57PM -0700, Kevin Ballard wrote:
>
>>>> There is one facet of submodules that annoys me, because it
>>>> prevents me from using them as a replacement for svn:externals.
>>>> Namely, the submodule refers to a specific repository, but not
>>>> a path within that repository.  I work with svn repos that use
>>>> svn:externals to peg revisions (as is appropriate) but they all
>>>> refer to various paths within the other repositories, and the
>>>> only way I can deal with that is to throw symlinks everywhere.
>>>
>>> Actually, is this a big problem? Git can track symlinks and without
>>> adding support for overall partial checkouts, adding this would feel
>>> like too huge a hack to me.
>>>
>>> Also, when converting to a different VCS, it might be sensible to
>>> adjust
>>> your modules setup a bit as well - the requirement to include only
>>> particular subdirectory of a submodule sounds rather strange to me.
>>
>> The problem is right now I maintain a bunch of git-svn mirrors of
>> internal svn repos, but the company isn't willing to switch to git.
>> And we use subtree externals links to do things like pull in the
>> models from one rails app into another, or pull in various
>> subdirectories of the "support" repository.
>
> I think the correct solution would be to make 'models' separate
> repository... or create interim repository containing only changes
> to 'models', and having 'models' as its top directory.