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Re: [RFC] Light-weight checkouts via ".gitlink"

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JWJosef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date
Dec 8, 2006, 23:25 UTC
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On Friday 08 December 2006 23:54, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> > NAME = name

Forgot to mention in the proposal: If you recursively have light-weight checkouts inside each other, the real "name" (for .git/external/<name/ and for further submodule configuration e.g. in .git/modules of the base repository) should of course be the concatenation of the names in the .gitlink files while going up to the base repository.

> > Perhaps instead of adding arbitrary number of .. in front of relative
> > path, we better use some magic, like ... for finding somewhere up?
No need. Something like
> 	/home/user/.../linux

is crazy. Do you want to scan all of your home directory everytime this lookup is needed? So "..." really only makes sense in front of the relative path, but there, you also can leave it out.

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