Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 01:01:27PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 12:33:34AM +0100, Martin Waitz wrote:

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On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 06:25:07PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

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Would it also be possible to allow the "Tree:" line in the commit object
to refer to a commit, or does the root of the project need to be a
special case?

this would then be something like the branch-archival proposal.

Do you have any pointers to previous discussion?  (A couple obvious
searches don't turn up anything for me.)

Aug 04 Eric W. Biederman    [RFC][PATCH] Branch history

I really think that using subprojects can be used for this workflow, too.
But adding a submodule directly to the root is not really possible,
we'd have to use special user interfaces for that, even when the
git-core might be able to handle it.
But what might be possible is to have one toplevel history-tracking
repository in e.g. ~/src and then add all the repositories you work
with as a submodule.  Whenever you want to record the history of
some project, you can simply commit it to ~/src.

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Martin Waitz