From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:22:43 GMT
Subject: Re: .gitlink for Summer of Code
Message-ID: <vpqr6rbex7g.fsf@olympe.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <1174929374.5662.15.camel@localhost>

Eric Lesh <eclesh@ucla.edu> writes:

> There is no .git dir for these.  The .gitlink refers back to the main
> repository's .git/external/$submodule, which is a full .git dir with
> index+HEAD and symlinks back to the .git of the main repo for everything
> else.

I don't see any contradiction.

Light checkouts would have an almost empty .git (it still needs an
index, and its own head anyway) and use the .git of the main repo for
everything else.

-- 
Matthieu