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

From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: May 27, 2007, 20:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20070527204020.GI955MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070527203442.GC8361@admingilde.org>

On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:34:42PM +0200, Martin Waitz wrote:

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> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:02:41PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > As we do for the refs: put it into .git/info/refs. This file is already 
> > meant to "cache" the output of ls-remote for dumb protocols.
> 
> why on earth do you want to store a subproject SHA1 in the
> superproject.git?

Did you read that sentence after writing it?

Anyway, we already concluded further down the thread that it wouldn't make sense to put any particular subproject SHA-1 in the superproject's info/refs.

skimo

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