From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 13:11:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Fourth round of support for cloning submodules
Message-ID: <20070524131108.GP942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070524114354.GN942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 02:41:57PM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> I think the whole point of the 'remote config' stuff is to get an
> unversioned/out-of-tree .gitmodules file, right?

Yes.

> If so, one could put this file into the object db and refer to it with
> something like 'refs/tags/subproject-config' or even
> 'refs/misc/subproject-config'. Both of these refs will be found by
> ls-remote and point to the object containing the suggested subproject
> configuration.

That's a possibility, but then...

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:43:54PM +0200, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> Or do you propose we put the URL in a blob and put the object sha1
> in there.  If so, who's going to create these blobs for the git://
> and ssh:// protocols?  upload-pack?

I don't think you can expect the user to this herself.

skimo