Re: sourceware and git

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 05:02:47PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> >I think having them in one git project (that includes libgloss and the 
> >relevant toplevel) would be fine.  I'm generally dubious of things such as 
> >submodules;
> 
> Your dubiousity doesn't have any bearing if it isn't backed up by facts.

It's backed up by the list of requirements I gave for git to work smoothly 
in the presence of submodules as if there were a single repository, none 
of which (according to the git-submodule manpage) git submodules meet.

We have many years' experience of the src repository being problematic 
because of the use of a special feature of CVS (modules files for partial 
checkouts of a directory in the repository) that doesn't work well with 
other features of CVS (cvs update -d; the interaction of modules file 
changes with tagging and branching).  That also provides a basis for 
caution about such features in other version control systems, and for 
preferring an ordinary git repository whose clones work with ordinary git 
commands just like those commands work with clones of any other random git 
repository.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com