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From: "Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Intoducing the .git file (again)
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:29:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c5c35580802171429m1091492dgd65e13c94de08bd4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802172219190.30505@racer.site>

On Feb 17, 2008 11:20 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Lars Hjemli wrote:
>
> > PPS: If included, the .git file should probably be used by git-submodule
> > to clone submodule repositories into something like
> > $GIT_DIR/submodules/<name>, as that would make local submodule changes
> > more resistant to dataloss due to checkout/reset in the containing
> > repository.
>
> I don't buy that argument.  For the moment, the submodules are
> self-contained repositories.  The superproject does not even have to have
> a single object contained in a submodule.  I'd try to keep that
> separation.

They would still be separated and self-contained repositories, but
with my suggestion the submodule repository would be moved out of the
working tree of the containing repository. Which I believe is a good
thing, especially when you switch from one branch in the containing
repository which had the submodule in './foo' to another branch where
the submodule is located in './lib/foo'.

--
larsh

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-17 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-17 22:14 Intoducing the .git file (again) Lars Hjemli
2008-02-17 22:14 ` [PATCH 1/5] Add platform-independent .git "symlink" Lars Hjemli
2008-02-17 22:14   ` [PATCH 2/5] Fix setup of $GIT_DIR in git-sh-setup.sh Lars Hjemli
2008-02-17 22:14     ` [PATCH 3/5] Teach resolve_gitlink_ref() about the .git file Lars Hjemli
2008-02-17 22:14       ` [PATCH 4/5] git-submodule: prepare for the .git-file Lars Hjemli
2008-02-17 22:14         ` [PATCH 5/5] Teach GIT-VERSION-GEN about the .git file Lars Hjemli
2008-02-18  5:44     ` [PATCH 2/5] Fix setup of $GIT_DIR in git-sh-setup.sh Junio C Hamano
2008-02-18  8:41       ` Lars Hjemli
2008-02-17 22:25   ` [PATCH 1/5] Add platform-independent .git "symlink" Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-17 22:37     ` Lars Hjemli
2008-02-17 22:50       ` Lars Hjemli
2008-02-18  5:43   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-18  8:35     ` Lars Hjemli
2008-02-18 11:45       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-17 22:20 ` Intoducing the .git file (again) Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-17 22:29   ` Lars Hjemli [this message]
2008-02-17 23:27     ` Johannes Schindelin

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