Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
From: Sam Ravnborg <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:06
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:14:01AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Making git.git the first guinea pig has a unique bootstrapping problem involved, however. These kind of changes in git.git itself has to wait at least until what we have in 'next' today is in everybody's hands. Otherwise, people who want to use git for their real work need to first grab a tarball snapshot that has the plumbing subproject support, and then update to 'master', because we are still too fast moving for any distro binary packaged version to be satisfactory solution for people who want to have all the bells and whistles. Also, I cannot have subproject in git.git until kernel.org starts running git with subproject support -- otherwise nobody can clone or pull from git.git X-<.
The bootstrapping issue could be fixed by having a separate git-subproject.git on kernel.org. But I see no easy solution for the requireent for kernel.org to a new git (and I doubt kernel.org sysadmin is too keen to update to a next-based git). Sam