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

From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: May 24, 2007, 07:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20070524073652.GH942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070524072945.GO28023@spearce.org>

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 03:29:45AM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Why?  Their configuration is their configuration.  Who knows what
> they have stored there.  Look at the recent cvsserver config options,
> there's now a lot of information about the SQL database that backs
> cvsserver.  That stuff shouldn't be public.

For http:// or rsync:// it's public already; for ssh://, if you are allowed to access the git repo, you can read the config as well; for git://, we can dump a predefined selection of configuration variables.

> If you want to publish something for a client to fetch, it should
> be done by publishing a Git object referenced by a proper ref:
> blob, tree, commit, tag, take your pick.

You mean like a tag "submodules" that points to a text file describing the submodules? That's a bit of a pain to set up since you would want that to be independent of your project.

skimo