Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about gitlinks

From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Apr 12, 2007, 00:12 UTC
Message-ID: <461D798B.3040008@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704101325580.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> So there's a very real issue where a repository with submodules still 
> "works", even with a .gitmodules file that is totally scrogged and doesn't 
> have the right information (yet), it's just that it may simply not be able 
> to do all the operations because it cannot figure out where to pull 
> missing subproject data from etc..
>

Whoa... "missing" subproject data?

Surely, unless you're doing lightweight/shallow clones, if you have a gitlink you've also got the dependent repository? Otherwise the reachability rule will be broken.

Sam.

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