Re: alias module that checks out a particular branch

[Jean-Pierre Sevigny]

Thanks,

I guess tagging the module file at the same time of tagging the module 
would allow to keep track of the module evolution?

Would be cool to allow definition of modules per branches :)

Thanks again for your answer,

JP

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> Jean-Pierre Sevigny <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Modules are cool!
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> Modules have problems as they may be changed over time making it
> difficult to recapture the state of a checkout from the past.
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> Modules are not branched, so the same module file need to work for all
> possible branches of the repository.
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> Someone suggested patches to modules to deal with branching once, but I
> lost track of that suggestion.
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> > Is it possible to declare a module that does a checkout of a branch,
> > i.e. something like:
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> > product_A = product branch A
> > product_B = product branch B
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> No.
>         -- Mark
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