From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:59:36 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <461D6858.4090007@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704111545040.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Does this consider the case where the intent of the subprojects are to
> > collate multiple, small projects into one bigger project?
> >
> > In that case, you might want to keep all of the subprojects in the same
> > git repository.
>
> I assume you mean "you might want to keep all of the subprojects' objects
> in the same git object directory".
>
> And yes, that's absolutely true, but it's technically no different from
> just using GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY to share objects between totally unrelated
> projects, or using git/alternates to share objects between (probably
> *less* unrelated repositories, but still clearly individual repos).
>
Would that be the only distinction?
Would submodules be descended into for object reachability questions?
> So the main point of superproject/subprojects is to allow independence
> (because independence is what allows it to scale), but there is nothing to
> say that things *have* to kept totally isolated.
>
I'm particularly interested in repositories with, say, thousands of
submodules but only a few hundred meg. I really want to avoid the
situation where each of those submodules gets checked or descended into
separately for updates etc.
Sam.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-11 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-10 4:12 [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?) Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <Pi ne.LNX.4.64.0704092115020.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-10 4:13 ` [PATCH 1/6] diff-lib: use ce_mode_from_stat() rather than messing with modes manually Linus Torvalds
2007-04-10 4:13 ` [PATCH 2/6] Avoid overflowing name buffer in deep directory structures Linus Torvalds
2007-04-10 4:14 ` [PATCH 3/6] Add 'resolve_gitlink_ref()' helper function Linus Torvalds
2007-04-10 9:38 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-10 14:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-10 15:35 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-10 15:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-10 15:57 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-10 16:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-10 15:54 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2007-04-10 4:14 ` [PATCH 4/6] Add "S_IFDIRLNK" file mode infrastructure for git links Linus Torvalds
2007-04-10 4:15 ` [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links Linus Torvalds
2007-04-11 22:41 ` Sam Vilain
2007-04-11 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-11 22:59 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2007-04-11 23:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-11 23:05 ` David Lang
2007-04-11 23:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-11 23:30 ` David Lang
2007-04-12 2:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-12 2:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-12 17:18 ` David Lang
2007-04-12 18:32 ` Dana How
2007-04-12 19:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-13 9:00 ` Rogan Dawes
2007-04-13 15:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-15 6:50 ` Dana How
2007-04-12 0:00 ` Dana How
2007-04-12 0:03 ` Sam Vilain
2007-04-12 0:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-12 1:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-12 2:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-12 2:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-12 2:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-11 23:30 ` Dana How
2007-04-10 4:20 ` [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about gitlinks Linus Torvalds
2007-04-10 8:40 ` Frank Lichtenheld
2007-04-10 11:31 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-10 14:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-10 16:28 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2007-04-10 16:50 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-10 17:23 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2007-04-10 18:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-10 19:04 ` Andy Parkins
2007-04-10 19:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-10 20:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-10 20:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-12 0:12 ` Sam Vilain
2007-04-12 0:35 ` Martin Waitz
2007-04-12 2:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-12 3:56 ` Sam Vilain
2007-04-10 19:41 ` David Lang
2007-04-10 20:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-10 19:29 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2007-04-10 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-11 23:47 ` Sam Vilain
2007-04-12 0:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-12 0:42 ` Torgil Svensson
2007-04-12 0:56 ` Martin Waitz
2007-04-12 21:23 ` Torgil Svensson
2007-04-11 23:36 ` Sam Vilain
2007-04-11 8:06 ` Martin Waitz
2007-04-11 8:29 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-11 8:36 ` Martin Waitz
2007-04-11 8:49 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-11 9:20 ` Martin Waitz
2007-04-11 9:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-11 10:03 ` Martin Waitz
2007-04-11 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-11 22:19 ` Martin Waitz
2007-04-11 22:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-11 9:47 ` Andy Parkins
2007-04-11 11:31 ` Martin Waitz
2007-04-11 15:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-11 22:49 ` Sam Vilain
2007-04-11 23:54 ` Martin Waitz
2007-04-12 1:57 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-04-12 15:12 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2007-04-10 4:46 ` [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?) Linus Torvalds
2007-04-10 13:04 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-10 15:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-10 15:48 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-10 16:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-10 16:43 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-10 19:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-10 20:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-10 20:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-10 21:02 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-04-10 21:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-10 21:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-15 23:21 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-04-11 8:08 ` David Kågedal
2007-04-11 9:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-15 23:25 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-04-11 8:32 ` Martin Waitz
2007-04-11 8:42 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-11 8:57 ` Martin Waitz
2007-04-10 13:39 ` [PATCH] allow git-update-index work on subprojects Alex Riesen
2007-04-10 23:19 ` [PATCH] Allow " Alex Riesen
2007-04-11 2:55 ` Junio C Hamano
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