Re: [PATCH] Allow fetching from multiple repositories at once

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Hi!

Dear diary, on Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 04:13:28PM CEST, I got a letter
where Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> said that...
> You misunderstood me: I was talking about a (hidden) local multiplexer.

Yes; I just wanted to cover another obvious alternative.  :-)

> But in the scenario you painted, wouldn't it be practical to have one 
> consolidated repo _in addition_ to the small ones? Of course, the refs in 
> the consolidated one would have to be prefixed with the name of the repo 
> they come from.

You still have problems with tags, for example, and pushing may get
tricky. It's also non-intuitive for users (I'm seeing some repositories
in gitweb but fetching from something completely different, and look at
those weird things I have to do with the branches, or git will clone
_all_ the xorg projects at once for me, eeek).

Of course you could hide all that elaborately in the porcelain but I
think this turns to be eventually much less-impact solution which is
significantly easier to maintain for the repository admins, intuitive
for users and also simpler for porcelains supporting at least
light-weight subprojects.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Snow falling on Perl. White noise covering line noise.
Hides all the bugs too. -- J. Putnam
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