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
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