Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:31:52AM +0000, Andy Parkins wrote: > >>> there are dozens of repositories; I would now like to group them in the >>> same repo for ease of clone/fetch. >> >> It doesn't have fetch or clone support, but perhaps my poorman's submodule >> code will help you a bit, until real submodule support appears in git. > > Thanks for the pointer, but it doesn't handle one of my pet peeves with > many repositories: fetching 25 repositories takes a long time. I have a > "look at every repository and see if anything needs fetched or pushed" > script; it takes about 0.5-1.0 seconds per repository. Turning 25 > fetches into 1 makes it a lot nicer to use. > > So of all the problems hoped to be solved by submodule support, I think > your poor man's submodule support solves the ones I don't care about > (tracking external repositories with merge resolution) but not the one I > do (fetch/clone effort). :) See http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SubprojectSupport which mentions prototype submodules/subprojects implementation by Martin Waitz, with having link to submodule commit in the tree (so tree have links to trees, to blobs, and to submodules/commits). BTW. Andy, could you add note about your lightweight submodule support to this page? TIA. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html