We used it a lot with the TextMate bundles. We could have users checkout just the files related to their issues. It was nice for support.
If we would have made them checkout the entire repository, it dramatically raises the maintenance they are obligated to. They need to keep up with newer versions.
James Edward Gray II
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On Jan 26, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
Thomas Sawyer wrote:
On Jan 26, 12:05�pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <mar...@marnen.org> wrote:
Git handles subprojects, sure... but it's arguable whether it does
them *well*Is git submodule really any worse than svn external?
To clarify, I wasn't referring to submodules or externals. By
"subproject" I meant literally keeping multiple projects in a single
repo. Subversion's advantage here is that a subdirectory can be
handled as an independent unit within the whole.I used to structure my Subversion repositories this way. In retrospect,
it's hard to see a particularly good reason for it -- at least in my
case, I never did the sort of cross-project reuse that it would have
facilitated. I certainly don't see it as a reason to avoid Git.
