Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

hoi :)

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:04:13PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

* lt/gitlink (Sun Apr 15 11:14:28 2007 -0700) 17 commits

Stalled; Alex has a set of tests that should go on top of this
series but I haven't taken a look at it yet.  I think we should
have enough for interested people to start futzing with, and I
am wondering why nobody has sent a note saying "Hey, I did this
using tree objects with commits in it, it works nicely for these
operations but these things are still cumbersome to do and I
need to polish it more".

You know that I am interested, but sadly I don't have as much time to
really have a look / work on it as I'd liked.  But Linus' series
looks very good from what I've seen now.
Conceptually Linus approach is very much identical my prototyping work
and I am convinced that it is the right way to go.  Only his code is
much better (hey, it's Linus after all ;-) and about our branch-vs-HEAD
discussion, well we'll see how it works out.

Now, how to go on?
The next thing we need is a real checkout & merge support -- but that
is not that hard.
Then we need to think about how to handle the submodule object database,
e.g. when fetching.

I'd also like to be able to support bare supermodule repositories which
include all neccessary submodule objects.  But I guess we need some
more experience with submodules before we can solve that in a scalable
way.

-- 
Martin Waitz