Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about gitlinks

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 10, 2007, 19:04 UTC
Message-ID: <200704102004.08329.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704101122510.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tuesday 2007, April 10, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> (But there's nothing that says that the ".gitmodules" file couldn't
> just use the same parser as the git config file, so I don't really
> strongly care either way. I just think it would be nice to be able to
> say
>
> 	[module "kdelibs"]
> 		dir = kdelibs
> 		url = git://git.kde.org/kdelibs
> 		description = "Basic KDE libraries module"
>
> 	[module "base"]
> 		alias = "kdelibs", "kdebase", "kdenetwork"
>
> or whatever. You get the idea..)

Would it be nicer if .gitmodules were line-based to aid in merging?

Andy

-- 
Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
andyparkins@gmail.com

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