Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date: Apr 19, 2007, 10:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20070419100757.GB27208@admingilde.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v647tcjr6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

hoi :)

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:04:13PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> * lt/gitlink (Sun Apr 15 11:14:28 2007 -0700) 17 commits
> 
> Stalled; Alex has a set of tests that should go on top of this
> series but I haven't taken a look at it yet.  I think we should
> have enough for interested people to start futzing with, and I
> am wondering why nobody has sent a note saying "Hey, I did this
> using tree objects with commits in it, it works nicely for these
> operations but these things are still cumbersome to do and I
> need to polish it more".

You know that I am interested, but sadly I don't have as much time to really have a look / work on it as I'd liked. But Linus' series looks very good from what I've seen now. Conceptually Linus approach is very much identical my prototyping work and I am convinced that it is the right way to go. Only his code is much better (hey, it's Linus after all ;-) and about our branch-vs-HEAD discussion, well we'll see how it works out.

Now, how to go on? The next thing we need is a real checkout & merge support -- but that is not that hard. Then we need to think about how to handle the submodule object database, e.g. when fetching.

I'd also like to be able to support bare supermodule repositories which include all neccessary submodule objects. But I guess we need some more experience with submodules before we can solve that in a scalable way.

-- 
Martin Waitz