Hello,
if I may add my two cents,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Fri, May 01, 2009 at 07:02:29PM CEST:
> - The git history would become nonlinear and confusing, with releases
> occurring on a particular branch only.
a nonlinear history is not bad per se! On the contrary, a nonlinear
history can,
Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> at least it allows me to reconstruct the public tarballs.
That is all that you want? I'll store the reference like this:
*** version.sh.orig 2009-05-01 18:46:48.0 +0200
--- version.sh 2009-05-01 18:46:32.0 +0200
***
*** 1,3
--- 1,6
> 1) What are git submodules? I've read [2], and I think the purpose of git
>submodules is to reference particular versions (tags) in other, public
>git trees. Right?
Yes with s/tags/commits/.
> 2) It is pointless to make a reference to a non-public commit in a another
>git reposito
Hi Paolo,
Paolo Bonzini wrote in [1]:
> > Another problem: can you please switch to submodules for gnulib?
3 questions:
1) What are git submodules? I've read [2], and I think the purpose of git
submodules is to reference particular versions (tags) in other, public
git trees. Right?
2) I
Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Thanks for your writeup on how to use git submodules for gnulib.
> Is there already some
> instructions about this in gnulib somewhere?
No, I don't think so, but there should be! The only disadvantage is
that bootstrap will not perform a shallow clone of gnulib, but ra
This is from the libunistring originally, but I have a gnulib related
request...
Paolo Bonzini writes:
> Another problem: can you please switch to submodules for gnulib?
Thanks for your writeup on how to use git submodules for gnulib. I'm
going to experiment using it (and the bootstrap script)
