From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:17:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT
Message-ID: <200612011917.19252.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <45706758.2020907@b-i-t.de>

On Friday 2006, December 01 17:33, Stephan Feder wrote:

> 1. A submodule is stored as a commit id in a tree object.
>
> 2. Every object that is reachable from the submodule's commit are
> reachable from the supermodule's repository.

I'm still not convinced about 2.  Why should any of the submodule commits be 
in the supermodule repository?  I know that is what you've implemented, but 
it still feels like too much of a blending of the submodule into the 
supermodule.

In fact, why should the submodule commits be even visible in the supermodule?  
That tree->submodule commit is sufficient; there isn't any need to view 
submodule history in the supermodule.



Andy

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Dr Andrew Parkins, M Eng (Hons), AMIEE