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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] git anyone?
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Nick Pope wrote:
> I really couldn't make sense of this. Also - did you actually read my
> last reply? The link I sent you linked to this:
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/egit/
>
> I've never used it. I can't vouch for it. But if that isn't some form of
> integration, I don't know what is.

Please check fact before posting 'solutions' ...
egit does not ACTUALLY fully work hence the main reason it is still an 
incubation project. The main problem is that jgit on which it is based does not 
current support sub-repo, and as soon as there is a sub-repo in the target then 
nothing works!

> "...working package management system..."
>
> I presume this is multiple projects in a single repository? Yes, Git
> doesn't have that. Again - it just sounds like a mess to me. I've never
> had to have a "package management system" in a SCM repository myself
> before, so I guess I cannot comment too strongly on this.
>
> However, submodules do work quite nicely. I won't pretend that they are
> a perfect solution in every case because the are tied by commit. Anyone
> who doesn't want the cruft can ignore them. The PHP repository could
> probably do with some level of segmentation anyway - it is one giant
> monolithic beast at the moment.

sub-repo STILL needs work to allow a SINGLE download of a clone complex repo. 
PHP is a number of packages which combine to provide a single distribution, and 
packages can be added as required. It is not a single monolithic beast. Either 
the whole modular setup is imported into a single git repo, or each package has 
it's own repo. It is THEN that the holes in sub-repo management become a problem!

( And installing msysgit broke ssh access to my customer sites from the windows 
box. A couple of days working on fixing that produced no solution, while simply 
un-installing it restored all of the broken functionality. It was a few months 
ago, but I don't believe anything ha changed so I will not be wasting time on it 
until someone says that msysgit is now working with an existing putty/secure key 
setup ... What I have has worked for years and git broke it! )

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