At Khan Academy, we are running a Jenkins installation as our build
server. By design, our Jenkins machine has several different
directories that each hold a copy of the same git repository. (For
instance, Jenkins may be running tests on our repo at several
different commits at the same time.) W
I am not sure if there was any improvement since then, but Junio
wrote about alternates 2 years ago
http://git-blame.blogspot.com/2012/08/bringing-bit-more-sanity-to-alternates.html
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Hi Craig,
Craig Silverstein wrote:
> By design, our Jenkins machine has several different
> directories that each hold a copy of the same git repository. (For
> instance, Jenkins may be running tests on our repo at several
> d
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> You might find 'git new-workdir' from contrib/workdir to be helpful.
> It lets you attach multiple working copies to a single set of objects
> and refs.
Thanks! That does indeed sound promising -- like a more principled
version of my GIT_
Craig Silverstein wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Craig Silverstein wrote:
>>> Question 4) Is there a practical way to set up submodules so they can
>>> use the same object-sharing framework that the main repo does?
>>
>> It's possible to do, but we haven't wri
btw, just FYI, the scheme you lay out here doesn't actually work
as-is. The problem is the config file, which has an entry like:
worktree = ../../../mysubmodule
This depends on the config file living in
./git/modules/mysubmodule/config. But the proposed scheme moves the
config file to
Craig Silverstein wrote:
> btw, just FYI, the scheme you lay out here doesn't actually work
> as-is. The problem is the config file, which has an entry like:
>worktree = ../../../mysubmodule
> This depends on the config file living in
> ./git/modules/mysubmodule/config. But the propo
Craig Silverstein wrote:
> btw, just FYI, the scheme you lay out here doesn't actually work
> as-is. The problem is the config file, which has an entry like:
>worktree = ../../../mysubmodule
> This depends on the config file living in
> ./git/modules/mysubmodule/config. But the propo
} This seems like good motivation to try to get that series in good
shape and release it soon.
I was going to spend some time tomorrow (if I can find any :-) )
trying to fix up the contrib script to work with submodules, or at
least the kind that we use. Is that something that's worth the time
to
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