Questions regarding large projects

[Matthieu Moy]

John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> Iwan Vosloo wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> I am working on projects that will in time become quite large, and
>> have just switched to bazaar-ng (0.7) from GNUarch.  (So, I'm quite
>> familiar with arch, but have only an RTFM understanding of bazaar-ng.)
>> 
>> 
>> I have questions regarding the running of larger projects using
>> bazaar, and thought I'd rather dump them here instead of just doing my
>> own thing.
>> 
>> 1) What are the thoughts out there regarding structuring a large project
>>    managed by bazaar into smaller sub-projects?  Is the current
>>    thinking that you'd just make each sub-project a bazaar project on
>>    its own?
>
> If you want, you can certainly do this. (Similar to Arch's configs,
> though we don't have config as a concept).
>
> We eventually will support nested trees in a very nice manner:
>
> http://bazaar.canonical.com/NestedTreeSupport

Note that unlike Arch, bzr supports partial tree operations
(diff/status/commit), so, performance-wise, it's not necessary to
split the project into subprojects.

(but you may want to do this for many other reason of course)

-- 
Matthieu