Re: [RFC PATCH v2] Support gitlinks in fast-import.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 20, 2008, 12:07 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807201404280.3305@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <200807191621.25654.angavrilov@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Alexander Gavrilov wrote:

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> Links can be represented by two forms of the
> Modify command:
> 
> M 160000 SHA1 some/path
> 
> which sets the link target explicitly, or
> 
> M 160000 :mark some/path
> 
> where the mark refers to a commit. The latter
> form can be used by importing tools to build
> all submodules simultaneously in one physical
> repository, and then simply fetch them apart.

It seems that people like to do this, have their submodule branches in the superproject. I wonder if we should bless this by installing an alternate in the "git submodule init"ed submodules, or even do it during a "git submodule update".

> +			/* Links refer to objects in another repositories, so

s/another/other/

Thanks, especially for the tests, Dscho