Re: Will git have a baseline feature or something alike?

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Sam Vilain [off-list ref] wrote:

 > And last, KDE repos should most probably be split into submodules.

 Mmm.  Everyone always says that; what it really needs I think is someone
 to really take the conversion on board and come up with a workable plan
 on this front.  I think the counter-argument to this was "but you always
 want to have 70% of the repository checked out for development".
 Counter-counter argument is "yes but they don't always need to be deep
 clones".  Anyway, it's not my baby, just thought I'd let you know about
 it :-)

That sounds a lot like the x.org submodule split. AFAIU, it did
involve some relatively minor changes to configure/build scripts to
handle the submodules being built somewhere other than in a subdir of
the main project. Nothing earth shattering, just small changes to how
the build works, and I think after the initial shakeout everyone's
happy and the development pace is quite a bit faster & more
adventurous.

All of this from bits I read in the x.org dev lists, and some
developer blogs - IANAX.OD

cheers,


m