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

On 5/24/07, Sven Verdoolaege [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 02:41:57PM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote:

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I think the whole point of the 'remote config' stuff is to get an
unversioned/out-of-tree .gitmodules file, right?

Yes.

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If so, one could put this file into the object db and refer to it with
something like 'refs/tags/subproject-config' or even
'refs/misc/subproject-config'. Both of these refs will be found by
ls-remote and point to the object containing the suggested subproject
configuration.

That's a possibility, but then...

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:43:54PM +0200, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:

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Or do you propose we put the URL in a blob and put the object sha1
in there.  If so, who's going to create these blobs for the git://
and ssh:// protocols?  upload-pack?

I don't think you can expect the user to this herself.

Well, my point would be that we already have the necessary plumbing to
solve the problem (discovery and distribution of out-of-tree objects).
Some porcelain support on top of this is all that is needed (well,
almost. I just tried downloading my own tarball, and got an error
about the ref not pointing to a commit. But that shouldn't be too hard
to fix)

-- 
larsh