Re: [PATCH 07/16] git-read-tree: take --submodules option
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 20:05:06 +0200, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
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> 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.
Glad to hear it. I didn't really have time to read through all the patches.
> > This would require changes to the logic how git finds GIT_DIR (which would be
> > really deep change),
>
> Euhm.... I just add a symlink...
Yes. Except I am not sure mingw supports that.
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Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>