Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

Uwe Kleine-Koenig wrote:

Hello,

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

quoted

The only problem I'm seeing atm is that the supermodule somehow has to 
mark whatever commits it's using from the submodule inside the submodule 
repo so that they effectively become un-prunable, otherwise the 
supermodule may some day find itself with a history that it can't restore.

One could circumvent that by creating a separate repo for the submodule
at checkout time and pull the needed objects in the supermodule's odb
when commiting the supermodule.  This way prune in the submodule cannot
do any harm, because in it's odb are no objects that are important for
the supermodule.

Yes, but then you'd lose history connectivity (I'm assuming you'd only 
pull in the tree and blob objects from the submodule, and prefix the 
tree-entrys with whatever directory you're storing the submodul in).

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