From: Andy Parkins Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:03:31 GMT Subject: Re: What's in git.git (stable) Message-ID: <200704271903.33263.andyparkins@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Friday 2007, April 27, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I'm personally really really sure. The whole point of subprojects (at Fair enough. I just hadn't seen very much talk about this issue and wanted to make sure. > trouble with the new feature: at a minimum, git-fsck would always > complain about the invalid mode (and things like "git diff" would too > - I think it used to just die on unknown modes). That kind of settles it really - if neither implementation would have worked with non-submodule git then the decision must come down to which is technically better - and I'm persuaded that the extra layer of indirection doesn't actually gain anything other than some extra objects to track. > - with 1.5.2, git will be good enough to _serve_ stuff, even if it > might not be very usable for the client-side operations. So >From my point of view, I don't really mind manually fetching the submodules. I very much appreciate that I don't _have_ to have the submodules for the superproject to continue to work. I was actually surprised how little I'm finding I need submodule support in the porcelain. The only slight problem at the moment is with git-checkout; switching from a branch with the supermodule to a branch without it and back needs a bit of hoop jumping, but nothing too painful. All in all - success all over. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@gmail.com