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

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: May 24, 2007, 17:33 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580705241033l73cb1295w4f1a33e74b745857@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vabvuywix.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 5/24/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> "Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I think the whole point of the 'remote config' stuff is to get an
> > unversioned/out-of-tree .gitmodules file, right?
>
> Why does this have to be out-of-tree and unversioned to begin
> with?

Probably to cater for subprojects moving away from the url mentioned in the versioned .gitmodules file.

> When you are bootstrapping, you will start by a fetch/clone of
> the superproject.  Why can't that tree contain necessary
> information that is relevant to the superproject in question?

It sure can, and it would be the most natural solution. I just wanted to mention an alternative to the 'git config --remote' solution.

-- larsh