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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 24, 2007, 09:35 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705241033570.4648@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070524072404.GF942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:

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> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:40:20AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 May 2007, skimo@liacs.nl wrote:
> > > This patch series implements a mechanism for cloning submodules.
> > > Each submodule is specified by a 'submodule.<submodule>.url'
> > > configuration option, e.g.,
> > > 
> > > bash-3.00$ ./git-config --remote=http://www.liacs.nl/~sverdool/isa.git --get-regexp 'submodule\..*\.url' 
> > > submodule.cloog.url /home/sverdool/public_html/cloog.git
> > > submodule.cloog.url http://www.liacs.nl/~sverdool/cloog.git
> > 
> > I am sorry to complain so late in the game, but I am not really interested 
> > in submodules. However, what you say here is not a task for git-config 
> > IMHO, but rather for git-remote.
> 
> Hmmm... git-remote does only local configuration and never gets
> any information from the other side.
> What would be the interface and how would you get the information?

I was complaining that git-config, which is purely a local beast, gets infected with even more obscure stuff. Junio mentions regularly that he does not trust git-config that much, and given the number of fixes we still get, I have to agree. So let's not put any more stuff into that kitchen sink, especially if it has nothing to do with the configuration of your repo.

Ciao, Dscho