From: Duy Nguyen Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:36:06 GMT Subject: Re: Composing git repositories Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v7gkilry2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Not on the current design but the discussion before that round that >> influenced the outcome greatly was this: >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/14486/focus=14492 >> >> where we discussed a separate "gitlink" type of object. >> >> And obviously this discussion is also a must read: >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/44106 >> > > Found a bit more relevant and probably more important (at the design > level) discussion history for people interested in understanding why > the things are as they are (without which we cannot make progress > while avoiding mistakes): > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/15072 > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/31941/focus=32302 > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/47466/focus=47621 Should someone add these links to the source code (maybe as a comment in submodule.c, or above the definition of S_IFGITLINK in cache.h)? A brief summary or outcome from these links in the comment would be nice. -- Duy