Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Now, to get everything to work seamlessly within such a commit thing 
> might be a fair amount of work, but I'm not sure you even _need_ to. It 
> might be ok to just say "subproject 'xyzzy' differs" in the diff, for 
> example, and have some rudimentary support for "git status" etc talking 
> about subprojects that need to be committed.

I agree with the static "diff" part, and probably "checkout" and
"merge" are not all that difficult.

However, if I recall correctly, it was rather nightmarish to
make this also work for reachability traversal necessary for
pack generation.  It was painful enough even when the bind was
at the commit level (which was way simpler to handle), but to do
this the right way, the bind needs to be done at the tree level,
and "rev-list --objects foo..bar" would need some way to limit
the commit ancestry chain of subproject at the same time, by
computing the commit ancestry of the embedded commits in the
trees.

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