Re: Darcs repositories decommissioned

[Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>]

>I think we could solve that problem, by still having separate git repositories for each package and
>bundling them all up into one through submodules.
>This would still have the advantage of having all packages together, but still allow to checkout a
>package alone.
>I don’t have much experience with submodules and as I understand it, they are a bit more
>difficult to work with.



Unless you try git sparse checkout, a solution I proposed on the switch thread.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/600079/is-there-any-way-to-clone-a-git-repositorys-sub-directory-only

(note: I'm not proposing to use it, I'm just telling you that now the feature is there)

cheers,

G.