Re: [ros-dev] Git Migration: The documentation, rossubsys and wallpapers directories

[Magnus Johnsson]

Doesn't submodules do what you need? And, all submodules get cloned
automatically if you just add --recursive to the clone command. It all
depends on what you mean by arbitrary location. :).
https://github.com/magnusjjj/gfesys/blob/master/.gitmodules
(I will shut up if you feel this is annoying and shit. Not meant as a
besserwisser-y shit or no-clue-as-to-situation or something, and don't want
to derail the discussion :). Just nerdsniped me since I have been using the
functionality a fair bit and also seen other projects use it for things
that *sound* similar to what you are talking about)
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2017-09-07 23:50 GMT+02:00 David Quintana (gigaherz) &lt;gigaherz(a)gmail.com&gt;om>:
>   Answering to Magnus: In svn it's trivial to
> checkout a subfolder in an
>  arbitrary location and commit and such from that subfolder. This made it
>  easy to have separate root folders for rostests, rosapps, etc. Doing this
>  in git is non-trivial and even if possible, would require multiple clones,
>  which is not wanted.
>  Answering to Dimitrij: Using mklink in windows requires administrator
>  privileges. It's not a valid option. And XP didn't have proper symlinks, it
>  had junction points which are not quite the same.
>  Given to the two reasons above, it's much more effective to permanently
>  move the files to inside the modules folder, where the build system already
>  expects it, and change the check from "folder exists" to "this
>  property/variable is set".
>  On 7 September 2017 at 22:50, Dimitrij Klingbeil &lt;dklingb(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  wrote:
> >   Hi Colin
> >  How about using links in the local filesystem? On Windows it's possible
> >  to use directory links in a similar way to Linux. Starting from Win7 there
> >  is a simple native way to do so (the mklink command), but it has already
> >  been possible since WinXP (with linkd.exe from the Windows Server 2003
> >  Resource Kit).
> >  It should be possible to keep the modules structure, clone the individual
> >  repositories into separate directories locally and link the directories
> >  into the target directory with one of the linkd / mklink / ln utilities on
> >  the development system. The links can be easily deleted with the normal
> >  Windows delete functions if need arises to remove them.
> >  Regards
> >  Dimitrij
> >  ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Finck" &lt;colin(a)reactos.org&gt;
> >  To: "'ReactOS Development List'" &lt;ros-dev(a)reactos.org&gt;
> >  Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2017 7:17 PM
> >  Subject: [ros-dev] Git Migration: The documentation, rossubsys and
> >  wallpapers directories
> >  Hi all!
> > >  As you know, we have to give up our "modules" directory concept when
> > >  switching to Git, because Git doesn't support checking out an arbitrary
> > >  directory into a subdirectory of a Git clone.
> > >  Therefore, the first commit to the migrated repository will make the
> > >  "reactos" directory the new root and move "rosapps" and
> > > "rostests"
> > >  permanently into "modules". We can then introduce an environment
> > >  variable/CMake variable/something else to enable or disable building of
> > >  them on demand (suggestions are welcome!)
> > >  
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