Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 14:13, Linus Torvalds wrote:

So this is why it's really important that the submodule really is a git 
repository in its own right, and why committing stuff in the supermodule 
NEVER affect the submodule itself directly (it might _cause_ you to also 
do a commit in the submodule indirectly, but the submodule commit MUST be 
totally independent, and stand on its own).

An implication of this is that the entire administrative
responsibility for having some super-sub module interaction
lies entirely with the supermodule.

Why not have a "glue" object at the "stub"-interface of
the supermodule tree that provides policy mappings to
the sub-modules.  Perhaps indicating git URL location,
mappings of branch names between super- and sub- modules,
special commit SHA1s, user policy or config choices at
the boundary, and things like that.

Is that the sort of direction we are headed?

jdl