From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:32:12 GMT
Subject: Re: repo.or.cz wishes?
Message-ID: <20070829073212.GQ1976MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <200708282356.10605.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:56:10PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> On Tue, 28 August 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:58:42PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> >>
> >> The problem is that repo.or.cz needs support for that in gitweb, while
> >> gitweb in turn needs support for that in git. This needs git consensus
> >> on how to specify object database location (or just gitdir) for
> >> submodules, to have later submodule support in gitweb.
> > 
> > What would be the use of that (outside of gitweb) ?
> 
> For the hypothetical (planned?) future '--recurse-submodules' option
> to git-diff family, git-ls-tree and git-ls-files, git-fetch and git-push
> (but I think not git-pull), perhaps git-log (besides what it supports
> by the way of git-diff-tree), maybe even git-status and git-commit.

Ah... you're talking about bare repositories, right?
For non-bare repos, I'd assume you would only recurse for those
submodules that you have actually checked out in your working tree.

skimo