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

From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: May 24, 2007, 13:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20070524132434.GQ942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705241415050.4648@racer.site>

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 02:17:27PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Thu, 24 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> > I suppose we could just set it to 0.
> > I also don't think the URL should be associated to a ref.
> 
> It does not need to be.
> 
> But then, it is sort of a "subref": You could just clone the submodule in 
> its own right, correct?

Exactly, but the information we want is not associated to any particular revision of the submodule. It just points to the repo. It's also not associated with any revision of the supermodule. That information should go in a tracked .gitmodules file.

skimo

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