Re: [RFC] Third round of support for cloning submodules

From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: May 21, 2007, 10:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20070521101455.GK942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070521100716.GX5412@admingilde.org>

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:07:16PM +0200, Martin Waitz wrote:

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> > The problem with relative paths is that you don't know if the
> > URL the user gave you points to the working directory or the
> > git directory of the project, but I guess I can let dump-config
> > tell you where it found the config file.
> 
> We have already solved that in clone & fetch so I don't think this is a
> real problem.

How? AFAICS, it's upload-pack of the *clonee* that determines where the actual git dir is. The cloner has no clue.

skimo

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