From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 13:29:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/15] entry.c: optionally checkout submodules
Message-ID: <20070524132909.GR942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070520211850.GJ5412@admingilde.org>

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:18:50PM +0200, Martin Waitz wrote:
> hoi :)
> 
> have you seen my patch to checkout submodules?
> 
> The submodule checkout should really check that the requested commit
> is really available and have some other path for creating submodules
> which are not currently checked out / able to be checked out.

If you are talking about your May 5th patch, then you weren't doing
that either.  You just checked if it _looked_ like a SHA1.

I check for the presence of the commit by calling git-cat-file.
Of course, this doesn't guarantee that the whole tree is available.

skimo