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

Hi,

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:41:30AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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On Thu, 24 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:

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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.

I could imagine this to be another extension of ls-remote.

You mean extending upload-pack ?  Junio mentioned this possibility as well.
This only solves the git:// and ssh:// case though.
What to do with the other protocols?

As we do for the refs: put it into .git/info/refs. This file is already 
meant to "cache" the output of ls-remote for dumb protocols.

Also, I don't really understand why it would be less of a hack
to add it to ls-remote than to add it to git-config.
The latter seems more natural to me.

No, not at all. git-config is about the local data. It is _meant_ to be 
private. Things you can receive by ls-remote are _meant_ to be public.

Ciao,
Dscho