> Given the recent debate about using submodules or subtrees, and the > occasional issues with sync-all: did anyone ever look into using the > 'repo' tool? Created by Google for Android development (AFAIK), but also > used by several other projects. See https://code.google.com/p/git-repo/
Con: - It doesn't work on Windows at all. Which is a showstopper by itself. - It doesn't actually solve any of the problems with having tightly coupled code in different repos. It's just a tool where you can snarf a boatload of repos at once. - Everything would have to be restructured into side-by-side gits. 2013/8/3, Nicolas Trangez <nico...@incubaid.com>: > Given the recent debate about using submodules or subtrees, and the > occasional issues with sync-all: did anyone ever look into using the > 'repo' tool? Created by Google for Android development (AFAIK), but also > used by several other projects. See https://code.google.com/p/git-repo/ > > Nicolas > > On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 15:41 +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: >> | I think you need to do a 'git pull' first to get the latest version of >> the >> | sync-all script and when you run that you should get a libffi-tarballs >> >> I'd done that (repeatedly). BUT, as has often happened before, I'd >> forgotten that my tree was on a different branch, and pulling of course >> has no effect on the branch. Rats. Note to self: whenever anything odd >> happens, check you are on 'master'. >> >> Sorry for the noise >> >> Simon >> >> | -----Original Message----- >> | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Erik >> de >> | Castro Lopo >> | Sent: 03 August 2013 08:25 >> | To: ghc-devs@haskell.org >> | Subject: Re: libffi >> | >> | Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: >> | >> | > But ./sync-all get doesn't get a libffi repo. Nor is it listed in >> ./packages. >> | > >> | > Does anyone have any idea where this new libffi repo is, and why it >> isn't listed? >> | >> | Simon, >> | >> | I think you need to do a 'git pull' first to get the latest version of >> the >> | sync-all script and when you run that you should get a libffi-tarballs >> | directory. >> | >> | Cheers, >> | Erik >> | -- >> | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> | Erik de Castro Lopo >> | http://www.mega-nerd.com/ >> | >> | _______________________________________________ >> | ghc-devs mailing list >> | ghc-devs@haskell.org >> | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> ghc-devs@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > > > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs