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From: Christoph Jahn <christoph.jahn@gmx.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linking multiple Git repositories for version tracking
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:12:47 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hic25v$17i$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: op.u574cwxqn3qeew@klee

I have had the very same issue a while ago when still using SVN (shame on 
me ;-). SVN offers a special tag "svn:externals" which is something like 
symlinks. Having used it for a while I came to the conclusion that such a 
thing, as well-intentioned as it may be, is something I want to avoid by 
all means.

There are two reasons for that:
- Lock-in
- It is conceptually wrong

The conceptual part -which I consider to be more important- is mostly 
about the fact that we are talking about dependency management and not 
version control any more. Do I really want to "hide" dependencies inside 
the VCS? Also, there may be different dependencies for compilation and 
testing. That's why I chose to use Maven for this task.

My $0.02

-- 
Best regards,
Christoph

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-10  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <op.u573txvdn3qeew@klee>
2010-01-08 17:03 ` Linking multiple Git repositories for version tracking James Beck
2010-01-08 18:34   ` Avery Pennarun
2010-01-09  5:25   ` Michael Witten
2010-01-10  8:12   ` Christoph Jahn [this message]

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