Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 1, 2006, 23:36 UTC
Message-ID: <200612020036.08826.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612011505190.3695@woody.osdl.org>

On Saturday 02 December 2006 00:09, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, sf wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> So why do you want to limit it? There's absolutely no cost to saying "I 
> want to see all the common shared infrastructure, but I'm actually only 
> interested in this one submodule that I work with".

So you are for a global submodule namespace in supermodule repositories, do I understand correctly?

Otherwise, how would you specify the submodules at clone time given the ability that submodule roots can have relative path changed arbitrarily between commits?