Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

[jc: adding back people on CC list while feeling sick of having
to do so...]

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

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Now it doesn't looks like trees/blobs anymore so maybe a link object
is handy:
 README
100644 blob <sha1 of blob>    REPORTING-BUGS
100644 link <sha1 of link>      AUTHORS
040000 tree <sha1 of tree>    arch
040000 tree <sha1 of tree>    block
040000 link <sha1 of link>     misc

This would be (using the submodule original proposal)

    140000 link <sha1 of link>     misc

If I recall correctly, the original original proposal used
160000 because that is not a bitpattern used in stat.h, and a
link behaves like a directory and a symbolic link at the same
time.