On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 02:44:14PM +0100, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > Our git-documentation is still... underwhelming at best. > I won't write it, I am anything but a git expert, and I have enough other > things to do.
Writing a single sentence about git submodule is something I can do if necessary, or we can just tell people to use kdesrc-build. > > What do you consider big? KHTML is "only" 13MB, and Solid is 2.2MB, is > > that > > also big? > I didn't check the sizes. khtml takes long to build, so I'd assume it's one > of the bigger ones. Sure, but what do you consider "too big to bundle with something else"? > Seriously, is this really any issue ? > How often do you checkout from scratch, and that in places where you have > slow internet ? Just last week, when I was sitting bored in an airport, for example. Or at the hotel I was staying before that. And this was in the Netherlands and the US, I imagine it's not much better in other parts of the world. > Or is this just a git limitation, that we can't update just in subdirs ? It's a git limitation, and submodules are supposed to be a way around that (amongst other things). -- Martin Sandsmark _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
