Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 3, 2006, 01:11 UTC
Message-ID: <200612030211.17159.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <20061202205853.GW18810@admingilde.org>

On Saturday 02 December 2006 21:58, Martin Waitz wrote:

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> So I was not against the link object itself (initially I wanted to do it
> this way, too), only agains the information which was proposed to be
> stored there.  Up to now I haven't found anything which makes sense to
> store next to the submodule commit to define the identity of the
> submodule.

Isn't it enough reason that a porcelain probably wants to store meta information for a given submodule, giving the need to put a name/identity to it?

Josef

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