From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:25:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Light-weight checkouts via ".gitlink"
Message-ID: <200612090025.24234.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <200612082354.34488.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

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.