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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:25:07 -0500
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On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 03:05:47PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Yes. I think it would be a _fine_ idea to have a new tree-entry type that 
> points to a sub-commit, but it really does need to be on a "tree level", 
> not a commit level.

Would it also be possible to allow the "Tree:" line in the commit object
to refer to a commit, or does the root of the project need to be a
special case?