Re: Feature Enhancement Idea.

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 23, 2009, 08:26 UTC
Message-ID: <c07716ae0909230126w36b3309fqe9ae8ccec0db49c3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5b5e291e0909222317q47ae36d4la470f17ec3902124@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Deon George <deon.george@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure if this is the right place, but I thought I'd post my
> idea and maybe somebody will either redirect me to the right place, or
> give me that "that wont happen".
>
> Im fairly new to GIT (wish I had discovered it long ago), and I really
> like using it - great work guys/garls :)
>
> My idea is to enhance GIT to support (I'll call it) development
> "layers". The current design of GIT is that the working repository and
> working directory assume that all files belong together in the same
> project. I would like to see GIT go 3D and support layers, so that
> files (and/or file content) can belong to multiple repositories (or
> considered unique projects), even though the working tree presents all
> files as if they were one.

Perhaps you could have a look at "git replace" that is now in the master branch. It could be improved to provide different "views" of a single repository. I don't think that alone it would provide everything you want though.

Best regards, Christian.