From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>,
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Fourth round of support for cloning submodules
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 19:38:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070524173817.GS942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vabvuywix.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:13:58AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> When you are bootstrapping, you will start by a fetch/clone of
> the superproject. Why can't that tree contain necessary
> information that is relevant to the superproject in question?
Because git is a distributed SCM.
> Isn't the information about which subprojects are used by the
> superproject specific to each superproject, and also specific to
> each version of the superproject (as a superproject can start
> using more projects than it did before)?
Perhaps for some information, but not for the "preferred" URL
to get the subprojects from. That may change in time (independently
of any changes in the superproject itself) and they
will be different for different copies of the same superproject.
skimo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-24 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-23 22:22 [RFC] Fourth round of support for cloning submodules skimo
2007-05-23 22:22 ` [PATCH 01/22] git_connect: unset CONFIG_ENVIRONMENT in child skimo
2007-05-23 22:22 ` [PATCH 02/22] Add dump-config skimo
2007-05-23 22:22 ` [PATCH 03/22] git-config: add --remote option for reading config from remote repo skimo
2007-05-23 22:22 ` [PATCH 04/22] http.h: make fill_active_slots a function pointer skimo
2007-05-23 22:22 ` [PATCH 05/22] git-config: read remote config files over HTTP skimo
2007-05-23 22:22 ` [PATCH 06/22] unpack-trees.c: pass cache_entry * to verify_absent rather than just the name skimo
2007-05-23 22:22 ` [PATCH 07/22] git-read-tree: take --submodules option skimo
2007-05-23 22:22 ` [PATCH 08/22] unpack-trees.c: assume submodules are clean skimo
2007-05-23 22:22 ` [PATCH 09/22] Add run_command_v_opt_cd: chdir into a directory before exec skimo
2007-05-23 22:22 ` [PATCH 10/22] run-command: optionally clear git environment skimo
2007-05-24 6:57 ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-24 7:15 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-24 7:19 ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-23 22:23 ` [PATCH 11/22] entry.c: optionally checkout submodules skimo
2007-05-24 6:59 ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-24 7:18 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-24 7:27 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-24 7:29 ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-24 16:21 ` Martin Waitz
2007-05-25 0:49 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-23 22:23 ` [PATCH 12/22] git-checkout: pass --submodules option to git-read-tree skimo
2007-05-23 22:23 ` [PATCH 13/22] git-read-tree: treat null commit as empty tree skimo
2007-05-23 22:23 ` [PATCH 14/22] git_config: add void * for callback data skimo
2007-05-23 22:23 ` [PATCH 15/22] make redirecting stdout to /dev/null available via run_command_v_opt skimo
2007-05-23 22:23 ` [PATCH 16/22] unpack-trees.c: optionally clone submodules for later checkout skimo
2007-05-23 22:23 ` [PATCH 17/22] entry.c: optionally checkout newly cloned submodules skimo
2007-05-24 13:28 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-23 22:23 ` [PATCH 18/22] git-clone: add --submodules for cloning submodules skimo
2007-05-23 22:23 ` [PATCH 19/22] test for simple submodule checkout support skimo
2007-05-23 22:23 ` [PATCH 20/22] checkout_submodule: checkout submodule on forced checkout of submodule dir skimo
2007-05-23 22:23 ` [PATCH 21/22] run-command: optionally redirect stderr to /dev/null skimo
2007-05-23 22:23 ` [PATCH 22/22] ensure_submodule: fetch missing revisions skimo
2007-05-23 23:40 ` [RFC] Fourth round of support for cloning submodules Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-24 0:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-24 7:22 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-24 7:29 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-24 7:36 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-24 9:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-24 10:51 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-24 11:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-24 11:16 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-24 11:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-24 11:43 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-24 12:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-24 12:23 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-24 13:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-24 12:39 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-24 13:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-24 13:24 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-24 13:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-24 17:42 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-24 18:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-24 12:41 ` Lars Hjemli
2007-05-24 13:11 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-24 13:32 ` Lars Hjemli
2007-05-24 17:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-24 17:33 ` Lars Hjemli
2007-05-24 17:38 ` Sven Verdoolaege [this message]
2007-05-24 17:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-24 17:55 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-24 18:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-24 18:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-24 19:13 ` Lars Hjemli
2007-05-24 19:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-24 18:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-25 10:00 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-25 16:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-25 16:28 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-25 16:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-24 18:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-25 12:27 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2007-05-25 12:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-25 13:59 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2007-05-25 14:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-25 14:38 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-25 14:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-25 14:51 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2007-05-25 14:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-25 15:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-25 16:23 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2007-05-25 16:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-25 17:09 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2007-05-25 12:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-25 12:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-24 12:23 ` Santi Béjar
2007-05-27 20:34 ` Martin Waitz
2007-05-27 20:40 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-24 13:35 ` Martin Waitz
2007-05-24 7:24 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-24 9:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-24 10:54 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-24 12:38 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-24 13:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
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