From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 08:43:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [3/4] What's not in 1.5.2 (new topics)
Message-ID: <200705181043.09203.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <200705180857.18182.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Friday 18 May 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:
> Bear in mind that what you're suggesting is no different in implementation 
> >from what Junio is suggesting but with one difference: in Junio's option 
> the "identifier" will act as a default URL if no override is found.

Yes; actually, its exactly the same aside from the name used in .gitmodules
for it, as I proposed a default URL which is derived from the suproject identifier
if no config entry is found.

> > Again, we could have a default URL in the absence of this config entry
> > which is relative to the URL of the superproject, and which allows for the
> > superproject repository to act as proxy.
> 
> This is why Junio's option of URL=Key is better.

It all depends on how we construct the default URL out of the subproject
identifier. Options:
(1) do not try to construct a default URL at all. Error out without a config
(2) use a configurable rewriting scheme like s/(.*)/git://host/\1/
(3) automatically detect a senseful rewriting scheme

Let's start with (1). We can invent convenient default schemes later on.


Josef