From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:38:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT
Message-ID: <1164735520.4724.28.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com>
In-Reply-To: <200611281629.08636.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 10:29, Andy Parkins wrote:

> IMO, it should always be possible to take a submodule and work on it in 
> isolation - in an extreme case, by moving it out of the supermodule tree 
> entirely.

This seems to me to be tantamount to saying something like:

    We need a "recursively defined git repository" that
    is representable as a git repository.

That is, can the tree object be changed from containing
just "blob" and "tree" references to also having a new
"git" reference as well?

jdl