From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:28:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Fourth round of support for cloning submodules
Message-ID: <20070525162838.GI942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vabvsswtd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:16:30AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> writes:
> > So, I think it would still be useful to have an optional additional
> > out-of-tree mechanism of getting usable URLs if the URLs in .gitmodules
> > or your local config don't work.
> 
> I thought that was already solved in my original two-level
> strawman and can naturally be extended to the three-level
> strawman.  What am I missing?

Maybe I'm missing something but you only seem to talk about .gitmodules
and local config there, while this would be a way of automatically getting
URLs that are either not available in .gitmodules or the local config
or are outdated or should be overridden.

skimo