From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:32:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT
Message-ID: <20061201093244.GP12463MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <200612010001.57111.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:01:54AM +0000, Andy Parkins wrote:
> On Thursday 2006, November 30 16:33, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> > > Well, I know what the commit is /that/ was all that was stored.  So I
> >
> > Then I have no idea what you are talking about.
> > A commit _contains_ all the history that lead up to that commit,
> > so if you have the commit, then you also have the history.
> 
> It's not so much an actual commit, as a reference to a commit in another 
> repository.

This is heresy.  Any object referenced in a tree should be in the repo
(possibly via alternates).