From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Verdoolaege Subject: Re: [RFC] Fourth round of support for cloning submodules Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 15:11:08 +0200 Message-ID: <20070524131108.GP942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> References: <20070524072945.GO28023@spearce.org> <20070524073652.GH942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> <20070524105112.GI942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> <20070524111645.GK942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> <20070524114354.GN942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> <8c5c35580705240541j7f632fc4lbd308c9386c2bde6@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: skimo@liacs.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Martin Waitz , Alex Riesen To: Lars Hjemli , Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 24 15:11:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HrD6Q-00031o-Kw for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 15:11:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756608AbXEXNLM (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 09:11:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756718AbXEXNLM (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 09:11:12 -0400 Received: from smtp19.wxs.nl ([195.121.247.10]:41565 "EHLO smtp19.wxs.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756608AbXEXNLK (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 09:11:10 -0400 Received: from greensroom.kotnet.org (ip54515aaa.direct-adsl.nl [84.81.90.170]) by smtp19.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.15 (built Nov 14 2006)) with SMTP id <0JIJ00I5ERALI0@smtp19.wxs.nl> for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 15:11:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 3561 invoked by uid 500); Thu, 24 May 2007 13:11:08 +0000 In-reply-to: <20070524114354.GN942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> <8c5c35580705240541j7f632fc4lbd308c9386c2bde6@mail.gmail.com> Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 02:41:57PM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote: > I think the whole point of the 'remote config' stuff is to get an > unversioned/out-of-tree .gitmodules file, right? Yes. > If so, one could put this file into the object db and refer to it with > something like 'refs/tags/subproject-config' or even > 'refs/misc/subproject-config'. Both of these refs will be found by > ls-remote and point to the object containing the suggested subproject > configuration. That's a possibility, but then... On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:43:54PM +0200, Sven Verdoolaege wrote: > Or do you propose we put the URL in a blob and put the object sha1 > in there. If so, who's going to create these blobs for the git:// > and ssh:// protocols? upload-pack? I don't think you can expect the user to this herself. skimo