On Apr 2, 2010, at 14:03, Tim Bunce wrote: > Imagine a cpan-all 'superproject' repro that has all the distros as > submodules. This repro would be tiny when cloned because it only > contains empty directories for the distos plus the metadata for where > the upstream distro repro lives and what the current commit it. > When a distro is updated the cpan-all repro would be updated > to reference the latest version of the distro.
That's a really good idea actually. That'd mean, too, that it's possible to "reset" a distribution (to get rid of excessive size etc). It'd be fun to try on the gitpan data... - ask (on a sketchy 3g connection out in the country)
