From: Jan Hudec Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 20:02:35 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/16] git-read-tree: take --submodules option Message-ID: <20070521200235.GE5082@efreet.light.src> In-Reply-To: <20070521180506.GP942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 20:05:06 +0200, Sven Verdoolaege wrote: > 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. -- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec