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

> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 03:29:45AM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > Why?  Their configuration is their configuration.  Who knows what
> > they have stored there.  Look at the recent cvsserver config options,
> > there's now a lot of information about the SQL database that backs
> > cvsserver.  That stuff shouldn't be public.
> 
> For http:// or rsync:// it's public already; for ssh://, if you are 
> allowed to access the git repo, you can read the config as well; for 
> git://, we can dump a predefined selection of configuration variables.

> > If you want to publish something for a client to fetch, it should be 
> > done by publishing a Git object referenced by a proper ref: blob, 
> > tree, commit, tag, take your pick.
> 
> You mean like a tag "submodules" that points to a text file
> describing the submodules?
> That's a bit of a pain to set up since you would want that
> to be independent of your project.