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Re: git question
On 04/17/2012 08:41 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> We would have to decide what to do with the shared directories. E.g.,
> both gdb and binutils share the bfd and opcodes directories. If gdb and
> the binutils move into separate git repositories, we really don't want
> their copies of the directories to diverge.
>
> This means that it is not enough to just do it. If there is a single
> bfd/opcodes GIT repository, then we need scripts to assemble different
> git repositories into a source tree that can actually be built. If gdb
> and the binutils each have their own copies of bfd/opcodes, then we need
> ongoing mechanisms to ensure that the copies remain the same.
This is more for my education rather than a suggestion (I am no git expert),
but why can't git submodules [1] be used to reference the shared pieces?
[1] http://book.git-scm.com/5_submodules.html
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