[development] SCM discussion.

[Gordon Heydon]

Hi,

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 02:10 +0100, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
> andrew morton wrote:
> 
> >On 11/24/05, Gordon Heydon <gordon at heydon.com.au> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I think I am most likely in the minority of users that use nesting to
> >>set up a site. I know that with darcs I am going to loss this ability
> >>and I also think with bzr we would as well.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I do exactly the same thing for my sites. I hadn't even thought of it
> >being affected by a change of SCM. This is one feature I'd really like
> >to keep.
> >  
> >
> 
> I use the same with the exception that I usually link to the contributed 
> modules' directories rather making a checkout. This also avoids having a 
> checkout per site. I of course cannot use the single update command this 
> way, but this is not too bad.

I did think of this, but I decided not to do it as I want to make sure
that I only update the current site and not all sites.

But this is 6 of 1, half a dozen of another.

Actually I do have a full contributions repository checked out but I
think it is really out of date.

Gordon.