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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 24, 2007, 11:02 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705241201270.4648@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070524105112.GI942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:

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> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:41:30AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I could imagine this to be another extension of ls-remote.
> 
> You mean extending upload-pack ?  Junio mentioned this possibility as well.
> This only solves the git:// and ssh:// case though.
> What to do with the other protocols?

As we do for the refs: put it into .git/info/refs. This file is already meant to "cache" the output of ls-remote for dumb protocols.

> Also, I don't really understand why it would be less of a hack
> to add it to ls-remote than to add it to git-config.
> The latter seems more natural to me.

No, not at all. git-config is about the local data. It is _meant_ to be private. Things you can receive by ls-remote are _meant_ to be public.

Ciao, Dscho