Brion Vibber wrote:
> You can check out extensions as separate repositories directly into
> subfolders within core's 'extensions' dir for a ready-to-run system. But,
> you *do* need to do either manually or scripted iteration over them to pull
> updates or commit across repos. Git's submodules might be a useful way to
> help automate checkouts, but they introduce their own complications for
> maintenance.
>
> There's a shell script on that page to make a sample checkout not including
> any history -- just exporting latest code to make sure the layout makes
> sense. Real conversion will probably want to include version history and
> release branches/tags for both core and extensions.


There are 615 extensions in trunk/extensions
With the new setup, would someone which has a checkout of everything 
need to open 616 connections (network latency, ssh authentication, etc.) 
whenever he wants to pull?
svn:externals already noticeably slow checkouts, and there's only a 
bunch of them.


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