Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date: Dec 1, 2006, 16:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20061201161558.GC18810@admingilde.org>
In-Reply-To: <45705283.5080900@b-i-t.de>

hoi :)

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 05:04:19PM +0100, Stephan Feder wrote:

> I was looking into git-init-module.sh (branch module2). There you set up 
> a separate git repository for the submodule and store references to it 
> into the supermodules's repository.

yes.

This is to be able to call git-fsck-objects and git-prune in the toplevel supermodule. When traversing the object tree, it already knows about all submodule, but only about those versions that are really part of their supermodule. So I have to teach git about separate submodule branches which may be used, in order not to prune them away.

-- 
Martin Waitz

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