Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

hoi :)

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 11:52:13AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

I don't think it would be wrong at all to have a "link object" type, and 
have the "link" tree entry actually point to that "link object" instead of 
pointing directly to the commit in the submodule.

And yes, that extra indirection would allow for more flexibility (the 
"link object" can contain comments about the particular version used, 
pointers to where you can get it - whether human-readable or strictly 
meant for automation - etc etc).

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

Storing a fetch location would grossly contradict the distributed nature
of git.  I really do not see _any_ reason to store more information than
the commit sha1 of the submodule.

-- 
Martin Waitz