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

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 24 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:40:20AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > On Thu, 24 May 2007, skimo@liacs.nl wrote:
> > > > This patch series implements a mechanism for cloning submodules.
> > > > Each submodule is specified by a 'submodule.<submodule>.url'
> > > > configuration option, e.g.,
> > > > 
> > > > bash-3.00$ ./git-config --remote=http://www.liacs.nl/~sverdool/isa.git --get-regexp 'submodule\..*\.url' 
> > > > submodule.cloog.url /home/sverdool/public_html/cloog.git
> > > > submodule.cloog.url http://www.liacs.nl/~sverdool/cloog.git
> > > 
> > > I am sorry to complain so late in the game, but I am not really interested 
> > > in submodules. However, what you say here is not a task for git-config 
> > > IMHO, but rather for git-remote.
> > 
> > Hmmm... git-remote does only local configuration and never gets
> > any information from the other side.
> > What would be the interface and how would you get the information?
> 
> I was complaining that git-config, which is purely a local beast, gets 
> infected with even more obscure stuff. Junio mentions regularly that he 
> does not trust git-config that much, and given the number of fixes we 
> still get, I have to agree. So let's not put any more stuff into that 
> kitchen sink, especially if it has nothing to do with the configuration of 
> your repo.