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From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about gitlinks
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:04:04 +0100
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On Tuesday 2007, April 10, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> (But there's nothing that says that the ".gitmodules" file couldn't
> just use the same parser as the git config file, so I don't really
> strongly care either way. I just think it would be nice to be able to
> say
>
> 	[module "kdelibs"]
> 		dir = kdelibs
> 		url = git://git.kde.org/kdelibs
> 		description = "Basic KDE libraries module"
>
> 	[module "base"]
> 		alias = "kdelibs", "kdebase", "kdenetwork"
>
> or whatever. You get the idea..)

Would it be nicer if .gitmodules were line-based to aid in merging?


Andy
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