dist-git status

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:48 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:24:10 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> > I've finally been able to convert all extras package modules/branches
> > (from FC3 and up) to git, much in the same layout as dist-hg (each
> > release "branch" being its own standalone repo (complete with
> > inherited history from devel/ branch at split time))
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something important here, but what is the gain by having
> each branch in it's own repo? Doesn't that mean that I can not merge changes
> from one branch into another one without using external patch files?

If it isn't done like that, you have to clone the entire repository to
do anything.  That sucks for people that only want to work on a handful
of packages or releases.  You could probably find a happy medium by
creating a repo per package though.

josh