From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Support relative .git file in a submodule Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:20:18 -0800 Message-ID: <7vhbqvry99.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <32541b131001081524g43d54a44i582dd286c1dfe7a5@mail.gmail.com> <1263008201-27429-1-git-send-email-brad.king@kitware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Avery Pennarun , Lars Hjemli To: Brad King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 09 18:20:43 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NTezR-0008Ge-SO for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:20:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754731Ab0AIRUe (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jan 2010 12:20:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752263Ab0AIRUe (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jan 2010 12:20:34 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:36834 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750712Ab0AIRUe (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jan 2010 12:20:34 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E511F8F924; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 12:20:28 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s= sasl; bh=HgOQ9+uckcpKSn17Y42tzsk+bnE=; b=IAhLHMXVI35VhN+rQJ9fhwH uC9QaSbdZv7Hxv/g0tMMkLHYEmDs3Rel7khf7N4CbcaI8w7FelVgvHRNb2JJ6LIf 9/nJ7tJ1Gysw0dprAaJnelIj4tgaSULbtrusaAcSZ9nltiKpjqa8zMaKpbqQUY/w 5tDYGdKJPK0b/QHjyM/U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q= dns; s=sasl; b=LwPSqtdglO4zENe5jp16gCJrk+8QNuY+nBzZ/xXO7r7r/TS/A Rx8nStKFZuto4dhI8HMsCGfz2KeKLqDkS7n9zyjI1b5gX2VkwK2mOVuVj+Zban3w MygnpZt3nj9wZp4mT48Fc0tP8/+ND8NlpbF7mkBSgipyXbZSItT03rJqas= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF018F920; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 12:20:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CBF748F91E; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 12:20:19 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 45F60232-FD43-11DE-8F42-9D59EE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Brad King writes: > Exactly. In fact the experiment I was doing involved creating submodule > repos inside the main .git and linking to them from the work tree > subdirectories. I'm looking into combining the approach with that of > git-new-workdir to keep submodules in the same object database. Nice. I recall we discussed design ideas to allow moving the submodule worktree and repository more easily using "gitdir:" when we first discussed the patch series. I am glad to see finally it is going forward.