Re: [RFC] Fourth round of support for cloning submodules

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 24, 2007, 00:50 UTC
Message-ID: <7vtzu3yrh9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705240039370.4113@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> On Thu, 24 May 2007, skimo@liacs.nl wrote:
>
>> This patch series implements a mechanism for cloning submodules.
>> Each submodule is specified by a 'submodule.<submodule>.url'
>> configuration option, e.g.,
>> 
>> bash-3.00$ ./git-config --remote=http://www.liacs.nl/~sverdool/isa.git --get-regexp 'submodule\..*\.url' 
>> submodule.cloog.url /home/sverdool/public_html/cloog.git
>> submodule.cloog.url http://www.liacs.nl/~sverdool/cloog.git
>
> I am sorry to complain so late in the game, but I am not really interested 
> in submodules. However, what you say here is not a task for git-config 
> IMHO, but rather for git-remote.

Honestly speaking, I do not think people have no business peeking into configuratoin remote repository has, and it would be preferrable that supermodule Porcelain stuff does not rely on that.