From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:40:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Gitweb and submodules
Message-ID: <20070728104054.GI31114MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <200707281229.17351.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 12:29:16PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> What do you think about using "submodule.$name.gitdir" configuration 
> variable for that?

What will be the value?  A path relative to the gitdir of the superproject?

> It has to be configuration variable because the 
> location of repository which has submodule objects doesn't change when 
> checking out (or rewinding) to different commit in supermodule.

Let's hope Pasky provides a way to set this information...

> As a special case I'd use 'no value' to note that submodule objects are 
> contained in the supermodule repository.

How about using '.' for that and no value for submodules that
are not available on this server?

skimo