Re: [boost] trunk vs release

Subject: Re: [boost] trunk vs release
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-03 14:57:07

on Wed Jun 03 2009, Vladimir Prus <vladimir-AT-codesourcery.com> wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> 
>> on Fri May 22 2009, "troy d. straszheim" <troy-AT-resophonic.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>>
>>>> I also really worried about this header issue.
>>>>
>>>> Volodya, thanks for the svn:externals suggestion. I'll try to learn more
>>>> about svn:externals so I can form an opinion.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I said I was "out of ideas", but that was a little disingenuous.  This is certainly
>>> one of many possible implementations, but I urge caution here.  We've been using
>>> svn:externals for subproject management for a while, against the conventional
> wisdom.
>>> It makes merging even harder, can turn a large difficult-to-merge project into an
>>> impossible to merge project.  You can end up needing to write tools to wrangle your
>>> externals.
>> 
>> Time for Git?
>
> Last time I've checked, it has no externals support whatsoever.

I use git-submodule all the time.  Does that not count as externals
support?

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Dave Abrahams
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