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

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:02:41PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:

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

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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.

OK... so what should git-update-server-info put in this file for submodules?
Or, equivalently, what should be the output of ls-remote?

Right now its a list of pairs of revs(sha1) and refs.
For submodules we want a connection between a submodule name
and one or more URLs where the submodule can be found.
How are you going to squeeze that into info/refs without confusing
older versions of git?

skimo