Re: Mozilla version control requirements and git

["Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 9/3/06, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> >> Oh, and "partial tree pulls for localisers". Perhaps git-cvsserver can
> >> help there? Localisers can just use TortoiseCVS and get a checkout of
> >> the language pack subdir.
> >
> > Partial repo pulls and an issue to. The mozilla repo has much more
> > than a browser in it, it also has a large mail/news program. A partial
> > repo pull may not be what is needed for git, instead git needs a
> > partial repo checkout.
>
> Or better support for subprojects.
>
> I think you can fake subproject support using separate repositories
> for subprojects, in the directory matching the one in the whole project,
> and the project repository, where we pull/push subprojects into.

You can't really fake it. Many of the projects in Mozilla are
dependent on each other. If you break them up into separate
repositories you lose the ability to do a cross project commit. This
is common when you are changing an interface between the subprojects.

Would it make sense for git to treat a tree of projects like you
describe as a single entity? So a commit would transparently commit to
all of the subprojects. Maybe the commit entry's sha1 could be set up
so that it would be identical in all subprojects. That would let you
string them back together.

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> Jakub Narebski
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