Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful

[Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>]

On Jul 17, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Petr Baudis wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:12:57PM -0700, Kevin Ballard wrote:
>> There is one facet of submodules that annoys me, because it  
>> prevents me
>> from using them as a replacement for svn:externals. Namely, the  
>> submodule
>> refers to a specific repository, but not a path within that  
>> repository. I
>> work with svn repos that use svn:externals to peg revisions (as is
>> appropriate) but they all refer to various paths within the other
>> repositories, and the only way I can deal with that is to throw  
>> symlinks
>> everywhere.
>
> Actually, is this a big problem? Git can track symlinks and without
> adding support for overall partial checkouts, adding this would feel
> like too huge a hack to me.
>
> Also, when converting to a different VCS, it might be sensible to  
> adjust
> your modules setup a bit as well - the requirement to include only
> particular subdirectory of a submodule sounds rather strange to me.

The problem is right now I maintain a bunch of git-svn mirrors of  
internal svn repos, but the company isn't willing to switch to git.  
And we use subtree externals links to do things like pull in the  
models from one rails app into another, or pull in various  
subdirectories of the "support" repository.

-Kevin Ballard

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