Live builds (was: Merged proto package)

[Florian Mickler]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:30:31 +0200
Dirk Wallenstein <halsmit at t-online.de> wrote:

> A full-fledged meta-git repo management tool suite would be nice. Such
> an application would, for example, be able to:
> - inform about the state of the modules (dirty, ahead of origin/master,
>   not on master, etc)
> - swap in and out personal trees. Maybe simply per symlinks.
> - check out a particular katamari version of each module
> 
> Does something similar exist already? One might assume that all larger
> projects, like for example desktop environments, could need something
> like that. 
> 

check out peter hutterer's git supermodule:

$> git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/X11R7.5.git
$> cd X11R7.5
$> git submodule init && git submodule update
$> ./TINDERBOX /opt/xorg-7.5  

and the corresponding man-pages... :)

cheers,
Flo