On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zee...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Tim-Philipp Müller <t....@zen.co.uk> wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 12:09 +0200, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: >> >>> I think gst-ffmpeg uses this feature. gst-ffmpeg is in git while it >>> uses ffmpeg which is in svn. >> >> Not really - gst-ffmpeg just runs svn checkout in autogen.sh, and that's >> it. >> >> We use git submodules in GStreamer though (we have a 'common' submodule >> for all other modules), but git submodules are still fairly cumbersome >> to use and I wouldn't recommend them until the git people make them less >> painful to use, at least not for projects where the submodule reference >> needs to be updated frequently. > > This whole idea of sub-modules is just brain-dead so I wouldn't > count on git developers fixing that instead of concentrating on > features of real importance. If you have some code (or even data) that > is needed by more than one of your modules/packages, you either put > that common stuff in another module/package and make other packages > depend on this or you just bite the bullet and don't mind the > redundancy. In some cases you just have to wisely use the combination > of both. > > -- > Regards, > > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) > FSF member#5124
Very much +1. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list