Re: [RFC] Fourth round of support for cloning submodules

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 03:29:45AM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

Why?  Their configuration is their configuration.  Who knows what
they have stored there.  Look at the recent cvsserver config options,
there's now a lot of information about the SQL database that backs
cvsserver.  That stuff shouldn't be public.

For http:// or rsync:// it's public already; for ssh://, if you are allowed
to access the git repo, you can read the config as well; for git://,
we can dump a predefined selection of configuration variables.

If you want to publish something for a client to fetch, it should
be done by publishing a Git object referenced by a proper ref:
blob, tree, commit, tag, take your pick.

You mean like a tag "submodules" that points to a text file
describing the submodules?
That's a bit of a pain to set up since you would want that
to be independent of your project.

skimo