[Pkg-octave-devel] git and octave-forge packages

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2009-05-11 20:22]:

> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:10:33AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2009-05-10 19:24]:
> > 
> > > I don't feel like having a git repository for every octave-forge
> > > package. Is it possible to just have one repository for all of these
> > > pacakges, with appropriate sub-directories?
> > 
> > Could you please elaborate more on this?  I mean, could you please tell
> > why sepearate repositories would be a problem?  I think that a single
> > repository will be actually problematic for two reasons.  First the
> > history for the individual packages would be mixed together.  Ditto for
> > the tags.
> 
> Oh well, in this case, let's have separate repositories. I thought that
> something like 50 .git repositories would be something to avoid, but if
> it's easier, that's fine with me.

Yes, it does not make sense to have a unique repository for all the
packages, since Git does not allow partial checkouts.  However, using
git-submodule, as I mentioned above, can be a intermediate solution.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#submodules

-- 
Rafael