Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links

From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Apr 11, 2007, 22:41 UTC
Message-ID: <461D6432.90205@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704092115020.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> Since the subprojects don't necessarily even exist in the current tree,
> much less in the current git repository (they are totally independent
> repositories), we do not want to try to follow the chain from one git
> repository to another through a gitlink.
>

Does this consider the case where the intent of the subprojects are to collate multiple, small projects into one bigger project?

In that case, you might want to keep all of the subprojects in the same git repository.

Sam.

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