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

From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: May 21, 2007, 12:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20070521121929.GM942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070521113415.GY5412@admingilde.org>

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:34:15PM +0200, Martin Waitz wrote:

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> hoi :)
> 
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:14:55PM +0200, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> > How?  AFAICS, it's upload-pack of the *clonee* that determines
> > where the actual git dir is.  The cloner has no clue.
> 
> we can just store the link to the workdir-or-gitdir and then try
> it out every time we access it.  When clone stores the location
> of the parent repository it doesn't know what it points to, but
> fetch works, too.

clone is just init + fetch (well, almost). The comment above applies to fetching as well.

skimo

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