From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:20:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Support relative .git file in a submodule
Message-ID: <7vhbqvry99.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1263008201-27429-1-git-send-email-brad.king@kitware.com>

Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> writes:

> Exactly.  In fact the experiment I was doing involved creating submodule
> repos inside the main .git and linking to them from the work tree
> subdirectories.  I'm looking into combining the approach with that of
> git-new-workdir to keep submodules in the same object database.

Nice.

I recall we discussed design ideas to allow moving the submodule worktree
and repository more easily using "gitdir:" when we first discussed the
patch series.  I am glad to see finally it is going forward.