From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:50:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT
Message-ID: <ekh45n$rfc$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <200611281029.11918.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins wrote:

>                                  How does the supermodule know which 
> branch to track in the submodule?  Does it simply track HEAD or when the 
> submodule is added to the supermodule is it told which branch to track?  I 
> suppose it's got to be HEAD really hasn't it?

I think that the proper place for that would be supermodule _index_.
The supermodule tree would have commit entry, and the index would have
symbolic branch (and perhaps some infor about where to find refs for
submodule).

This I guess breaks index abstraction slightly, but on the other hand
allows for tracking non-HEAD branch of submodule, and for submodule to
not know about supermodule at all...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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