From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:33:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT
Message-ID: <20061120233333.GD20736@admingilde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061120232507.GH12285@fieldses.org>

hoi :)

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 06:25:07PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 03:05:47PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Yes. I think it would be a _fine_ idea to have a new tree-entry type that 
> > points to a sub-commit, but it really does need to be on a "tree level", 
> > not a commit level.
> 
> Would it also be possible to allow the "Tree:" line in the commit object
> to refer to a commit, or does the root of the project need to be a
> special case?

this would then be something like the branch-archival proposal.
The user interface for such a beast would be difficult, as you have
to somehow specify if you mean the inner or outer repository.

-- 
Martin Waitz