Re: procfs, separate repo?

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Richard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net> writes:
>>>>> On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 12:59:47PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:

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 >> Given that Git has support submodules, but not (AIUI) for repository
 >> merging and splitting, my opinion would be to keep all but the bare
 >> minimum off the main Hurd repository.

 >> There could be a kind of hurd-full.git repository, which has all the
 >> relevant submodules' configuration to tie all the Hurd repositories
 >> together, though.

 > Unless it's very easy to use submodules, we should use one
 > repository.

        Virtually the only issue with multiple repositories is that a
        single commit cannot span across more than one of them.

 > Other projects with much more content and history have showed it's
 > perfectly sane to keep that much in one place, and it simplifies
 > keeping the tightly coupled modules of the Hurd in sync.

        As it was already pointed out, Hurd modules /shouldn't/ be
        coupled that tightly.

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