git-sync-experiments4

Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:56:54 +0200
From: "Joey Hess" <address deleted>
Subject: Re: Fetching git bundles

Have you considered using git subprojects?

The idea is that you have a top-level repo with subprojects.
Make the toplevel repo update each time a subproject
is committed to. Then if you ask git to update
the subprojects in a clone, it should know which ones
are out of date, and only hit those.

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see shy jo

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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:16:01 -0300
From: "David Bremner" <address deleted>
Subject: Re: Fetching git bundles

Joey Hess wrote:

>The idea is that you have a top-level repo with subprojects.  Make
>the toplevel repo update each time a subproject is committed to. Then
>if you ask git to update the subprojects in a clone, it should know
>which ones are out of date, and only hit those.

In fact dam and mxey have been discussing this idea on
#debian-perl. It certainly sounds more principled than what I have
been playing with, if maybe slightly less general (not a problem for
debian-perl).

David