Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date: Nov 21, 2006, 19:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20061121193248.GJ20736@admingilde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061121180127.GB27221@fieldses.org>

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 01:01:27PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 12:33:34AM +0100, Martin Waitz wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 06:25:07PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Do you have any pointers to previous discussion?  (A couple obvious
> searches don't turn up anything for me.)

Aug 04 Eric W. Biederman    [RFC][PATCH] Branch history

I really think that using subprojects can be used for this workflow, too. But adding a submodule directly to the root is not really possible, we'd have to use special user interfaces for that, even when the git-core might be able to handle it. But what might be possible is to have one toplevel history-tracking repository in e.g. ~/src and then add all the repositories you work with as a submodule. Whenever you want to record the history of some project, you can simply commit it to ~/src.

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Martin Waitz