Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add 'resolve_gitlink_ref()' helper function

On 4/10/07, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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).