From: Sam Vilain Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:12:59 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about gitlinks Message-ID: <461D798B.3040008@vilain.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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.