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

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 25, 2007, 22:11 UTC
Message-ID: <7vsl9kpn9b.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <46575220.2070604@midwinter.com>

Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 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.

Heh, you do not have to rub it in ;-) I already agreed that your three-level arrangement is easier to work with.