From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Vilain Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about gitlinks Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:12:59 +1200 Message-ID: <461D798B.3040008@vilain.net> References: <200704101828.37453.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> <200704102004.08329.andyparkins@gmail.com> <7vwt0kugmy.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Andy Parkins , git@vger.kernel.org, Josef Weidendorfer To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 12 02:13:15 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 1Hbmw2-0006SQ-Ha for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:13:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030565AbXDLANH (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:13:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030528AbXDLANH (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:13:07 -0400 Received: from watts.utsl.gen.nz ([202.78.240.73]:36513 "EHLO magnus.utsl.gen.nz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030565AbXDLANG (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:13:06 -0400 Received: by magnus.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 7B9C913A403; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:13:03 +1200 (NZST) Received: from [192.168.2.22] (leibniz.catalyst.net.nz [202.78.240.7]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by magnus.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E3613A3E1; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:12:59 +1200 (NZST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060521) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on mail.magnus.utsl.gen.nz X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds wrote: > So there's a very real issue where a repository with submodules still > "works", even with a .gitmodules file that is totally scrogged and doesn't > have the right information (yet), it's just that it may simply not be able > to do all the operations because it cannot figure out where to pull > missing subproject data from etc.. > Whoa... "missing" subproject data? Surely, unless you're doing lightweight/shallow clones, if you have a gitlink you've also got the dependent repository? Otherwise the reachability rule will be broken. Sam.