Re: [boost] [git] Mercurial?

Julian Gonggrijp <j.gonggrijp@gmail.com> writes:

Just because I could think of a way, here's a "cut your fingernails with a chainsaw" approach (excellent formulation by the way). Using multiple git repositories:

I'm setting up something very similar to this in the "real world" and it's working so far. It's not pretty at all but it does allow developers to work on a modular project in git. We don't have the additional complexity of re-merging two modular subtrees into a third subtree but that's almost incidental. Again, I really wouldn't recommend this for Boost, where the community has the power to switch entirely to git (or mercurial, or whatever). git-svn really hampers a lot of stuff. -Dave