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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP
 - problems
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Pierre Joye wrote:
> 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>    wrote:
>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>>  >    Pierre Joye wrote:
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>> >>>>  >>
>>>>>>> >>>>  >>    Another great example of a successful is the freedesktop project.
>>>>>>> >>>>  >>  They
>>>>>>> >>>>  >>    have 100s of sub project and each of them have modules.
>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>>  >
>>>>> >>>  >    Can I suggest you have a closer look at this conversion Pierre and
>>>>> >>>  >  work out
>>>>> >>>  >    what is currently missing from it ... hint - as a new developer how do
>>>>> >>>  >  I
>>>>> >>>  >    '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  ) because
>> >  submodules does not work well, they have simply rolled the modules back into
>> >  core ... a single monolithic repo:(
> That's not the reason but the changes in how it was developed.
Well I started a clone over an hour ago, and it's not 5% through yet ... many of 
the sections it's currently downloading I do not need to bother about.

 > See gstreamer or xorg for other examples with multiple modules.
Again neither of those seem to be using 'superprojects', just the odd library 
included as a submodule.

This was the problem I hit last year. A nice CVS repo got translated into some 
200 git repo's, but there still is no easy way of building a 'project' that 
pulls the say a core build with all the essential modules. You end up writing 
scripts to pull each and manage them individually. I would anticipate that php 
is probably larger than the libraoffice codebase, so being able to properly 
manage modular builds is going to be important?

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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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