Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Dec 5, 2006, 10:33 UTC
Message-ID: <45754AFE.1070207@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20061205090125.GA2428@cepheus>

Uwe Kleine-Koenig wrote:

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> Hello,
> 
> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>> The only problem I'm seeing atm is that the supermodule somehow has to 
>> mark whatever commits it's using from the submodule inside the submodule 
>> repo so that they effectively become un-prunable, otherwise the 
>> supermodule may some day find itself with a history that it can't restore.
> One could circumvent that by creating a separate repo for the submodule
> at checkout time and pull the needed objects in the supermodule's odb
> when commiting the supermodule.  This way prune in the submodule cannot
> do any harm, because in it's odb are no objects that are important for
> the supermodule.
>

Yes, but then you'd lose history connectivity (I'm assuming you'd only pull in the tree and blob objects from the submodule, and prefix the tree-entrys with whatever directory you're storing the submodul in).

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