Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about gitlinks

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

On Tuesday 2007, April 10, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

(But there's nothing that says that the ".gitmodules" file couldn't
just use the same parser as the git config file, so I don't really
strongly care either way. I just think it would be nice to be able to
say

	[module "kdelibs"]
		dir = kdelibs
		url = git://git.kde.org/kdelibs
		description = "Basic KDE libraries module"

	[module "base"]
		alias = "kdelibs", "kdebase", "kdenetwork"

or whatever. You get the idea..)

Would it be nicer if .gitmodules were line-based to aid in merging?

this is very similar to the problem I asked about with merging config files a 
couple weeks ago. the answer then was that when we get .gitattributes we should 
be able to specify content specific merge programs that could deal with this 
sort of thing on a per-file basis. That sounds like the answer to your concern 
as well, rather then makeing things order dependant and otherwise harder to read 
to make it able to be merged with the current tools (which assume line-based 
order-dependant content)

David Lang