From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:52:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add 'resolve_gitlink_ref()' helper function
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704100849170.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0704100835vbbfe8e7o2df2f121ce088589@mail.gmail.com>



On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:
> 
> 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).

Well, you also cannot *commit* to a bare repository, so it's a bit 
pointless for integration reasons. You'd still have to commit all changes 
somewhere else.

That said, it's definitely designed so that if you want to automate 
tracking other peoples bare repositories, you can do so: you'd just have 
to *really* script it with something like

	git update-index --cacheinfo 0160000 <sha1> <dirname>

(which is how you could create those commits to a bare repo too, so it's 
not like this is really even any different)

		Linus