From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 18:05:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/16] git-read-tree: take --submodules option
Message-ID: <20070521180506.GP942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070521165938.GA4118@efreet.light.src>

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:59:38PM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> We could store the GIT_DIR of submodule within the GIT_DIR of the
> superproject instead of the submodule directory itself. So instead of:
>  /
>  /.git
>  /subdir
>  /subdir/.git
> 
> There would be:
>  /
>  /.git
>  /subdir
>  /.git/submodules/submodule-name.git

I have this already, except that I use /.git/submodules/submodule-name/.git
because I was too lazy to figure out how to get clone to use the above
without using --bare, because --bare disables separate-remotes.

Is there any good reason, btw for --bare not to do separate-remotes ?
We could throw out a lot of speical cases, especially the --bare http
fetch if we would simply always do a separate-remotes.

> This would require changes to the logic how git finds GIT_DIR (which would be
> really deep change),

Euhm.... I just add a symlink...

skimo