Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 1, 2006, 23:03 UTC
Message-ID: <200612020003.14377.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <4570AF8F.1000801@stephan-feder.de>

On Friday 01 December 2006 23:41, sf wrote:

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> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> ...
> > In contrast, a submodule that we don't fetch is an all-or-nothing 
> > situation: we simply don't have the data at all, and it's really a matter 
> > of simply not recursing into that submodule at all - much more like not 
> > checking out a particular part of the tree.
> 
> If you do not want to fetch all of the supermodule then do not fetch the
> supermodule. Instead fetch only the submodules you are interested in.
> You do not have to fetch the whole repository.

But what, when I *want* to fetch the supermodule because of the source tree which is only available in the supermodule?

Of course, you can argue that the only objects in trees of a supermodule should be submodule commits, but this is quite restricting the usage of supermodules.

See further arguments for a submodule namespace in my other mail. You probably want to specify policies about submodule handling. This information has to be indexed by some name independent from a supermodule commit.

Josef