Re: Subtree with submodule inside?

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

 2. Submodules aware of their superproject and of the parent's branches.
    In other words, submodules would act as though under refs/ they
    had a symlink

	parent -> ../../../refs

    So you could do

	git checkout --recurse-submodules master

	cd path/to/submodule
	git checkout parent/heads/next

    This would avoid danger from "git gc" in submodules and would
    get rid of most of the motivation for named branches in the
    submodule, I'd think.

Are you assuming that they share their object stores?

No.  The 'symlink' thing is a think-o.  (When trying to explain the
idea I ended up oversimplifying and speaking nonsense.)

What I wanted to say is that parent/heads/next would be a way to
refer from the submodule to the same commit as

	refs/heads/next:path/to/submodule

refers to in the parent.

Thanks for clarifying,
Jonathan