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

["franky" <yinping@kooxoo.com>]

 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:
> > > 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
> > > submodule.
> >
> > As I said in the first email, the submodule way suffers from the
multiple
> > commit problem: src and bin as two submodules of project, three commits
(for
> > the 3 dirs separately) are needed when src directory changes and
compiled
> > binaries being put in bin directory. It's annoying to have to give 3
commit
> > 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.
> --
> 						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec
<bulb@ucw.cz>