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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add 'resolve_gitlink_ref()' helper function
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:35:09 +0200
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On 4/10/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Can't a subproject be bare?
>
> Not when it is checked out, no. That's what "checked out" means ;)
>
> If a subproject is bare, it never gets resolved, because it's never
> checked out in a superproject.
>
> So a subproject *can* be bare, but when it's bare it is just a totally
> regular independent git project, simply by *definition* of not being
> checked out inside a superproject.
>
> But hey, that was just a design decision of mine, and if people can argue
> for it being wrong, I don't think I'm married to it ;)

I didn't actually had a use case in mind as I asked it.
After a bit of thinking I could imagine a repo which is
used for integration exclusively (no compilation or looking
at the files at all).