Re: Can you do this with GIT?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 27, 2007, 19:49 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707272048280.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <200707271345.03300.rayl@mail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Ray Lehtiniemi wrote:

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> On Friday 27 July 2007 13:05, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, CPD wrote:
> 
> > > We produce variations based on a (mostly) common codebase. In CVS I set
> > > up "environment" modules for each platform, then when you are working on
> > > that platform, you simply check out the correct environment and build.
> > > Only the needed code and tools are exposed in that environment (this is
> > > important as clients must NOT see each other's code and most customers
> > > have some customization). I do this by defining and renaming modules in
> > > the CVSROOT modules file.
> >
> > I would use branches for that.  A base branch with the common code, and
> > the customisations in all the branches, which merge from the base branch.
> 
> this would break down if there were client-specific modules in the base 
> branch, though... how could those be hidden from the other clients?

Umm. Don't put the client-specific modules in the base branch, then? The base branch is the common code, the code that every client may look at. Nothing else.

Maybe I did not get the whole picture... do you want your _clients_ to access your main repo with Git?

Ciao, Dscho