On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 3:03 AM Olivier Sannier <oliv...@obones.com> wrote:
> Partial checkouts are somewhat possible with GIT but what is preventing me > from migrating our repository is the lack of svn:external mechanism. > I don't want multirepos, and even then submodules are to be updated manually > everytime where svn:external are automatically up to date. > And ideally, I would also need file externals support even if I could settle > for folder external if that's all there is. > I looked a various solutions but none where as easy to use for developers > than externals when doing a "svn update" at the root of the checkout. > > That being said, I'd be quite happy to be proven wrong. It's not a built-in. There are tools that have wrapped in automatically updating subdirectories with git repos, such as Terraform submodules. Terraform.... was written more to do one-time checkouts in a CI/CD environment. It avoids the git submodule problem of submodules being hooked to a particular commit, rather than an easily updated branch by name, which requires a distinct update procedure. That is something that svn:externals handle a bit more easily.
