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

[Martina Ferrari <tina@tincho.org>]

On 09/12/2019 12:14, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> 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?

We have done this in the past, IIRC. Just make sure you include the
directory in the package package, i.e. golang-golang-gddo-httputil-dev

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Martina Ferrari (Tina, the artist formerly known as Tincho)