Re: Approach to take when we need only a directory from a large repo

[Stephen Gelman <ssgelm@gmail.com>]

On Dec 9, 2019, at 9:14 AM, Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> gitlab needs httputil from https://github.com/golang/gddo but as per current practice, we will have to package the whole gddo as a single package. I think this is unnecessary and just addes extra maintenance burden. This also means adding lots of build dependencies if we want to build an run tests.
> 
> Can we consider packaging (automating) only the required part of a huge repo?
> 
> Thanks
> Praveen

Yes please!  This has been an issue for me with a number of packages.  The nature of golang generally means that we could package just a directory from a package and still get the tests and such so I think it’s pretty safe.

Stephen