Re: [PATCH 07/16] git-read-tree: take --submodules option

From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Date: May 25, 2007, 21:16 UTC
Message-ID: <46575220.2070604@midwinter.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vwsywpqaj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> If you were doing an efficient cgi script that renders history
> of git managed projects, binding git as its subproject, and that
> system can be built with either 'maint' (i.e. 1.5.2 series) or
> 'master' (i.e. ultrastable WIP towards 1.5.3), even though they
> both might come from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/,
> I think they should be registered as two separate logical
> subprojects.
>

I agree strongly with this, and it's another good reason that we have to be able to use something other than the URL as the key to look up a subproject's repository location. If you use the URL it is impossible to differentiate the two subprojects in this case.

-Steve

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