Re: What's in git.git (stable)

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Apr 27, 2007, 14:01 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704270938000.6186@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <200704271019.56341.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

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> I am still concerned about the submodule thing - once we push a mainline 
> version out with the format decided, that will be that and we'll be stuck 
> with it.  Are we _really_ sure that it's right to have a non-object hash in 
> the tree objects?
> 
> It's a fundamental change in the form of the tree: at the moment every hash in 
> the tree object represents another object in the same repository; with 
> gitlink as it is, that convention is broken.
> 
> Let's be really, really sure.  I'm not sure a big enough fuss has been made of 
> the fact that this is a change of repository format.  Before this you could 
> pretty much access any repository with any version.

I think it is reasonable to say that if you intend to work with a repo that contains references to submodules, then you need to upgrade your Git version. It is not like if the Git licensing fees are really prohibitive.

Nicolas