RE: Is there any plan to support partial checkout or submouduleimprovement?

 franky

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Hudec [mailto:bulb@ucw.cz]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:34 AM
To: franky
Cc: 'Johannes Schindelin'; 'Lars Hjemli'; git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is there any plan to support partial checkout or
submouduleimprovement?

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 19:53:08 +0800, franky wrote:

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You are talking as if your partial checkout was a project in its own
right.  Then make it so.  Do not use a partial checkout, but make that

a

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submodule.

As I said in the first email, the submodule way suffers from the

multiple

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commit problem: src and bin as two submodules of project, three commits

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the 3 dirs separately) are needed when src directory changes and

compiled

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binaries being put in bin directory. It's annoying to have to give 3

commit

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logs.

Thinking about it, it's only two commits -- src can be a submodule, but

bin

a normal directory (you can choose not to check out subprojects during
repository checkout).
Now I would actually say that commiting bin independently is better.
It allows you to commit sources more often (eg. if you are doing series of
small fixes) and more flexibility for branching (you don't want to merge
binaries).

Thanks for the advice. It's a good idea.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec

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