From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Christoph Bartoschek <bartoschek@gmx.de>
Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Submodules implementation
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:40:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vvddnwjmu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002240115.53771.bartoschek@gmx.de> (Christoph Bartoschek's message of "Wed\, 24 Feb 2010 01\:15\:53 +0100")
Christoph Bartoschek <bartoschek@gmx.de> writes:
> I see that in the submodule there is a .git directory with its own objects.
> This does not look like as if the submodule objects are part of the
> superproject.
Because they largely aren't. submodules are freestanding projects on
their own right.
One of the primary design decisions was to support the use of a
superproject without having to clone/checkout all the submodules.
You may want to check earlier design discussion thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/31941/focus=32944
It is a huge thread and some of the messages there might be nothing more
than uninformed and unworkable handwaving, except for the ones from Linus
and some others.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-24 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-23 23:50 Submodules implementation Christoph Bartoschek
2010-02-23 23:59 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-24 0:15 ` Christoph Bartoschek
2010-02-24 0:40 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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