Re: Further Git repositories?

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 02:05:30PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:

> Now, for publishing last years' GSoC projects etc., we'd need another
> bunch of 'em: for the projects that create new ``modules'' (procfs,
> LISP stuff, libchannel, eth-filter, eth-multiplexer, proc_proxy,
> nsmux, ...) -- I'd like to have theses in separate repositories
> instead of muddling all of them into the Hurd proper repository.

Why? Who exactly would would benefit from that?

> But instead of creating a full-fledged (separate) Git repository for
> each of the projects, I propose to have a ``dump'' repository in which
> there are several independent branches (`lisp', `channel', `eth-*',
> ...) containing the respective files.

Sounds like a mess. What is the advantage over branches in the main
repository?

Ideally, users should be able to create their own repositories, like on
freedesktop.org. I don't think Savannah supports that though?... :-(

-antrik-