Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

hoi :)

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 12:46:01PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Martin Waitz wrote:

quoted

What makes a submodule so special that now we suddenly have to store
those stuff in the object database?

I'm not sure it is. I suspect a pure commit link with just a CVS-style 
"modules" file is sufficient. I'm just saying that I don't think it is 
_wrong_ to possibly want to expand it.

If we later see that we really want to have it we can always introduce
it later.  I don't think we should do it now if we don't see clear
benefits _now_.

So I was not against the link object itself (initially I wanted to do it
this way, too), only agains the information which was proposed to be
stored there.  Up to now I haven't found anything which makes sense to
store next to the submodule commit to define the identity of the
submodule.

-- 
Martin Waitz