Re: svn:externals using git submodules

> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
>> 
>> Making git-svn handle svn:externals with specified revisions would be
>> _quite_ useful.  There's a special-case of this that I use personally:
>> svn:externals that point to other paths (and other revisions) of the
>> parent repo.
>
> Side note: even _without_ a specified revision, I think it's quite sane to 
> have the rule that a submodule hash of all zeroes is "unversioned".

> But while I'm encouraged that the whole gitlink thing seems to be working 
> for Andy, and some others are playing with it too, I'm also a bit 
> discouraged by the fact that there hasn't been any noise or work on the 
> porcelain side. I was obviously optimistic and hoping we'd see support in 
> checkout/diff, but I haven't heard anybody talk about actually 
> implementing .gitmodules and the porcelain support that uses them..