[tor-bugs] #30770 [Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team]: consider alternatives to the puppet mono-repo

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#30770: consider alternatives to the puppet mono-repo
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 Reporter:  anarcat                              |          Owner:  tpa
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
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Parent ID:  #29387                               |         Points:
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Comment (by anarcat):

 i just tried subrepo for the [https://gitlab.com/anarcat/puppet-lnav/ lnav
 module] and i gotta say it's pretty damn simple. all i did was:

 {{{
 git subrepo init modules/lnav/ -r https://gitlab.com/anarcat/puppet-
 lnav.git
 git subrepo push modules/lnav  -r git at gitlab.com:anarcat/puppet-lnav.git
 }}}

 and voilà: the remote repo has the files ''complete with the full history
 of the changes in that subdirectory''! that's a killer feature, i think.

 the two different `-r` arguments are there so that people that clone the
 monorepo get the publicly-readable URL they can pull from in the future.

 the only disadvantage of subrepo i can think of is that subdirectory isn't
 a real git repository locally: it's just a subdir.

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