Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date: Dec 1, 2006, 22:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20061201221230.GM18810@admingilde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200612012306.41410.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

hoi :)

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:06:40PM +0100, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:

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> > Well, I would actually argue that you may often want to have a
> > supermodule and then at least have the _option_ to decide to not
> > fetch all the submodules.
> 
> If you want to allow this, you have to be able to cut off fetching the
> objects of the supermodule at borders to given submodules, the ones you
> do not want to track. With "border" I mean the submodule commit in some
> tree of the supermodule.

I don't think this is something special to submodules. There has been interest in checking out only a part of the tree even before talking about submodules and I really think this feature should be independent to submodules.

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Martin Waitz