Re: .gitlink for Summer of Code

From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 26, 2007, 23:14 UTC
Message-ID: <200703270114.49365.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <vpqodmfss39.fsf@olympe.imag.fr>

On Monday 26 March 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> writes:
> > The original proposal was to have a standard .git directory for every
> > light-weight checkout inside of the base .git directory, e.g.
> > in <base>/.git/ext/<name>.git where <name> is some identifier for the
> > lightweight checkout, either provided in the .gitlink file or
> > automatically determined.
> 
> That seems really weird. That implies for example:
> [... some good reasons to not do it this way ...]

Ok, you are right. It is better to not touch the original repository for lightweight checkouts.

> * You have to manage a name for each lightweight checkout. What would
>   be such name? User-provided? uuidgen-like?

Such a name is interesting as identifier for submodules. It would be the relative path of the submodule from the supermodule base; or user supplied.

Lightweight checkouts and submodules have different requirements; yet, the lightweight checkouts should be so flexible to be able to be used for submodules checkouts.

Josef