[arch-general] Git

[Daniel Wallace]

> From: pdgiddie at gmail.com
> To: arch-general at archlinux.org
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:32:26 +0100
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Git
> 
> On Monday 30 Sep 2013 05:13:57 Sebastian Schwarz wrote:
> > On 2013-29-09, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> > > If we were to use git, we should have one git repository per
> > > package, and also provide one repository which includes all
> > > the packages as submodules.
> > 
> > Why not use one branch per package and one branch per repository
> > with the packages as submodules instead of a repository for each
> > package?  This way all the packages would be in a single
> > repository and could be fetched all at once or one at a time.
> 
> If you had one package on each branch, cloning the repository would bring down 
> all of the packages together, because all of the branches in a git repository are 
> fetched when you clone.  Keeping unrelated code in different branches in the 
> same repo is a bit weird in Git, and is not generally done; it almost always makes 
> more sense to use a separate repo for each code base.
> 
> Paul

You don't have to pull down all the branches at the same time.

Right now I maintain my own sub patch set for packages that I want stuffed added or removed to by useing git clone --single branch


git clone --single-branch git://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git -b packages/git

then when I want another package from extra or core, i can fetch it

git fetch origin packages/git
git checkout -b packages/git FETCH_HEAD

and you can git pull --rebase from origin in the same way

Daniel