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Re: problems serving non-bare repos with submodules over http

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 21, 2016, 17:45 UTC
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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
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> In case of non bare:
>
>     Get the repo and all its submodules from the specified remote.
>     (As the submodule is right there, that's the best guess to get it from,
>     no need to get it from somewhere else. The submodule at the remote
>     is the closest match you can get for replicating the superproject with
>     its submodules.)
>
> This way is heavy underutilized as it wasn't exercised as often I would
> guess,

My guess is somewhat different. It is not used because the right semantics for such a use case hasn't been defined yet (in other words, what you suggested is _wrong_ as is). You need to remember that a particular clone may not be interested in all submodules, and it is far from "the closest match".

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  1. Yaroslav HalchenkoApr 20, 2016
  2. Stefan BellerApr 20, 2016
  3. Yaroslav HalchenkoApr 20, 2016
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 20, 2016
  5. Stefan BellerApr 20, 2016
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 20, 2016
  7. Stefan BellerApr 20, 2016
  8. Yaroslav HalchenkoApr 21, 2016
  9. Stefan BellerApr 21, 2016
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 21, 2016
  11. Stefan BellerApr 21, 2016
  12. Jacob KellerApr 21, 2016

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