From: Pierre Habouzit Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:23:31 GMT Subject: Re: git submodules Message-ID: <20080728162331.GB4584@artemis.madism.org> In-Reply-To: <20080728162003.GA4584@artemis.madism.org> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:20:03PM +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > It also has the absolutely nice property to share objects, so that > projects that replaced a subdirectory with a submodule don't see their > checkouts grow too large. Especially it "fixes" git-new-workdir, which becomes really inefficient (storage and typing-wise) when submodules are in use, since it doesn't share git_dir's for the submodules (this could also be hacked together, but again, it's so much more convenient if we have only _one_ git_dir per repository that ... oh well) -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org