Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

Michael K. Edwards wrote:

who don't want to run kernel.org-scale mirrors.  To make this work,
you need sparse repositories (conserving resources when fetching, by
omitting the bulk of currently un-needed submodules that can reliably
be obtained later from elsewhere) and shallow cloning (conserving
resources when publishing, by referring cloners to a third-party
repository for universally available content).

Did you see GitTorrent?  http://gittorrent.utsl.gen.nz/  A lot of
similar ideas to what you mention.  Sorry, still no prototype :)

I'd see the submodules thing as a good way to glue together a whole
bunch of repositories, so that the core mirror servers only have to
mirror a small-ish number of repositories.

Sam.