Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Date: Nov 23, 2006, 23:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20061123232313.GB24909@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061122034056.GB23856@spearce.org>

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:40:56PM -0500, Shawn Pearce wrote:

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> Yet we still want to be able to efficiently perform operations like
> "git bisect" within the scope of that submodule, to help narrow down
> a particular bug that is within that submodule.  To do that we need
> the commit chain (all 10,000 of those commits) in the submodule.
> To get those we really need a commit-ish and not a tree-ish, as
> going from a tree-ish to a commit-ish is not only not unique but
> is also pretty infeasible to do (you need to scan *every* commit).

We don't need to have commits in the tree for this. We'll just have submodule commits which are not attached to a supermodule commit, and we can access the whole submodule history through the submodule .git/HEAD, just like we do for a standard git project.

Or do I miss something else ?

Best regards,