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 15:24:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20070524132434.GQ942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> References: <20070524073652.GH942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> <20070524105112.GI942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> <20070524111645.GK942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> <20070524114354.GN942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> <20070524123936.GO942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> 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: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 24 15:24:51 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 1HrDJ8-00062H-2F for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 15:24:46 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756834AbXEXNYg (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 09:24:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757526AbXEXNYg (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 09:24:36 -0400 Received: from psmtp03.wxs.nl ([195.121.247.12]:54483 "EHLO psmtp03.wxs.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756834AbXEXNYf (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 09:24:35 -0400 Received: from greensroom.kotnet.org (ip54515aaa.direct-adsl.nl [84.81.90.170]) by psmtp03.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.15 (built Nov 14 2006)) with SMTP id <0JIJ00GUNRWY68@psmtp03.wxs.nl> for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 15:24:35 +0200 (MEST) Received: (qmail 3739 invoked by uid 500); Thu, 24 May 2007 13:24:34 +0000 In-reply-to: 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 02:17:27PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote: > > I suppose we could just set it to 0. > > I also don't think the URL should be associated to a ref. > > It does not need to be. > > But then, it is sort of a "subref": You could just clone the submodule in > its own right, correct? Exactly, but the information we want is not associated to any particular revision of the submodule. It just points to the repo. It's also not associated with any revision of the supermodule. That information should go in a tracked .gitmodules file. skimo