Re: Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems

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. See gstreamer or xorg for other examples with multiple modules. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org