Re: [PATCH 0/6] Improvements for ref storage formats with submodules

[Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>]

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On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 06:09:04PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> As to propagating the choice of ref backend down from the
> superproject to the submodule, I am not sure if it matters all that
> much, so I view it as a relative low priority.  If somebody wants to
> use a specific ref backend for their repositories, then they want
> all their "git init" (or init_db()) to use that ref backend, and
> would arrange configuration to make it so.  When "git submodule
> init" internally calls "git init" (or init_db()), as long as we make
> sure such a choice would propagate to the new repository that
> happens to the one used for that submodule, we do not necessarily
> need to have a custom logic that says "ah, the user did not say
> anything about the ref backend, so let me peek the one used in the
> superproject and propagate it down".

You know, I'll just skip this for now. It feels somewhat orthogonal to
the changes in this series, and we're not closing the door on anything.

Patrick

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