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

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: May 24, 2007, 13:32 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580705240632y6110e2f9u74c6f12e6f800523@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070524131108.GP942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>

On 5/24/07, Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 02:41:57PM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> > I think the whole point of the 'remote config' stuff is to get an
> > unversioned/out-of-tree .gitmodules file, right?
>
> Yes.
>
> > If so, one could put this file into the object db and refer to it with
> > something like 'refs/tags/subproject-config' or even
> > 'refs/misc/subproject-config'. Both of these refs will be found by
> > ls-remote and point to the object containing the suggested subproject
> > configuration.
>
> That's a possibility, but then...
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:43:54PM +0200, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> > Or do you propose we put the URL in a blob and put the object sha1
> > in there.  If so, who's going to create these blobs for the git://
> > and ssh:// protocols?  upload-pack?
>
> I don't think you can expect the user to this herself.

Well, my point would be that we already have the necessary plumbing to solve the problem (discovery and distribution of out-of-tree objects). Some porcelain support on top of this is all that is needed (well, almost. I just tried downloading my own tarball, and got an error about the ref not pointing to a commit. But that shouldn't be too hard to fix)

-- 
larsh