From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 17:42:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Fourth round of support for cloning submodules
Message-ID: <20070524174252.GT942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705241446070.4648@racer.site>

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 02:52:25PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> It is not that expensive to just give the SHA-1 with the URL, and to 
> introduce a new namespace, say
> 
> 3f... submodule/path^{URL:blablub}
> 
> to say that the submodule which is connected in "HEAD:path" is available 
> with the URL "blablub" and just so happens to be at commit "3f..." at the 
> moment. Heck, you can even use this instead of expensive fetches to verify 
> up-to-date, and even more, you can make sure that you are as up-to-date as 
> the remote supermodule.

What about all the other branches?
Also, the submodule may not even be in any of the tips of the branches.

> Without some very intrusive surgery into the transport code of Git, in 22 
> patches, which I am not at all comfortable with.

You're not comfortable with the number or with the patches?
There's only about four or five that deal with this git-config stuff
and any other mechanism would have to implemented as well.

skimo