Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 20, 2006, 23:02 UTC
Message-ID: <ejtc3e$tod$2@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v7ixp20za.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> By the way, in todo branch, in Subpro.txt, there is talk about adding
>> link to submodule trees in _commit object_... well link to submodule tree
>> or commit, with the "mount point".
> 
> That was shot down by Linus and I agree with him.  "bind" was a
> bad idea because binding of a particular subproject commit into
> a tree is a property of the tree, not one of the commits that
> happen to have that tree.

  
"bind" was kind of "mount tree" idea; I agree that adding subproject
commits to trees is better idea than adding commits or trees to
superproject commit object.

By the way, what permissions get the subproject tree?

I wonder if it makes sense to be able to add tag objects instead of commit objects to trees (depeel to tree or blob)...

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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