Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

From: Torgil Svensson <torgil.svensson@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 16, 2006, 08:50 UTC
Message-ID: <e7bda7770612160050j526c2b86gbabeae13f2ff114a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612151809510.3557@woody.osdl.org>

On 12/16/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> Side note: that's not to say that I would really see why you'd want to
> have both the tree and the commit SHA1's, and why you seemingly think that
> the links don't need a filename. Hmm?

I really want that file-name back - we can call it a mind short-circuit.

> If you require the tree objects to be in the database, you might as well
> require that the commit object be there. But you could make rules that say
> that subprojects don't need the whole commit history, for example (which
> is just a shallow clone in the subproject).

You have a very good point here, this would give us the history of the

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