Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add 'resolve_gitlink_ref()' helper function

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 10, 2007, 15:35 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0704100835vbbfe8e7o2df2f121ce088589@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704100756060.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On 4/10/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> >
> > Can't a subproject be bare?
>
> Not when it is checked out, no. That's what "checked out" means ;)
>
> If a subproject is bare, it never gets resolved, because it's never
> checked out in a superproject.
>
> So a subproject *can* be bare, but when it's bare it is just a totally
> regular independent git project, simply by *definition* of not being
> checked out inside a superproject.
>
> But hey, that was just a design decision of mine, and if people can argue
> for it being wrong, I don't think I'm married to it ;)

I didn't actually had a use case in mind as I asked it. After a bit of thinking I could imagine a repo which is used for integration exclusively (no compilation or looking at the files at all).