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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 25, 2007, 14:51 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705251548390.4648@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070525143815.GF942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 25 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:

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> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 03:16:56PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > And the point about my config being private still stands. You have no 
> > business looking into my config.
> 
> Put your private configuration in config and your public configuration
> in submodulesconfig.
> A public repo typically wouldn't have any submodules configuration
> in config (or any other private information for that matter), but
> we wouldn't read it anyway.

Why complicate things? The information you want to put into submodulesconfig is an information you would most likely want to give cloners.

And as it happens, we _have_ a perfect transport mechanism for clones. You only have to put the information into the object database itself, and -- voila -- no need to change any core level plumbing.

That's why I keep harping on .gitmodules, since it _is_ the obvious correct, simple and elegant way to do things here.

So, just "s/\.git\/submodulesconfig/.gitmodules/g" in your head, and you're done.

Ciao, Dscho