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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:49:52 +0200
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To: Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> Pierre Joye wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Lester Caine<lester@lsces.co.uk> =A0wro=
te:
>>>
>>> > =A0Pierre Joye wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> =A0Another great example of a successful is the freedesktop project=
.
>>>> >> They
>>>> >> =A0have 100s of sub project and each of them have modules.
>>>
>>> >
>>> > =A0Can I suggest you have a closer look at this conversion Pierre and
>>> > work out
>>> > =A0what is currently missing from it ... hint - as a new developer ho=
w do
>>> > I
>>> > =A0'check out (clone)' a copy of libraoffice.
>>
>> By RTFM:http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/developers/
>
> Exactly ...
> While there were separate submodules for each section, as a result of
> converting the modular structure of the original CVS code base, those are
> now marked as obsolete ( http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice ) becaus=
e
> submodules does not work well, they have simply rolled the modules back i=
nto
> core ... a single monolithic repo :(

That's not the reason but the changes in how it was developed.  See
gstreamer or xorg for other examples with multiple modules.

--=20
Pierre

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