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Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 15:37:52 -0700
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
>> 
>> Making git-svn handle svn:externals with specified revisions would be
>> _quite_ useful.  There's a special-case of this that I use personally:
>> svn:externals that point to other paths (and other revisions) of the
>> parent repo.
>
> Side note: even _without_ a specified revision, I think it's quite sane to 
> have the rule that a submodule hash of all zeroes is "unversioned".

Yup.

> But while I'm encouraged that the whole gitlink thing seems to be working 
> for Andy, and some others are playing with it too, I'm also a bit 
> discouraged by the fact that there hasn't been any noise or work on the 
> porcelain side. I was obviously optimistic and hoping we'd see support in 
> checkout/diff, but I haven't heard anybody talk about actually 
> implementing .gitmodules and the porcelain support that uses them..

The thing is, almost all the core git people happen to be busy
at the same time at this moment.  Johannes has just moved, Shawn
and I are deep in day-jobs to the neck, ...

Don't worry, it eventually will come.