hoi :) On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:04:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > - walking the *global* object list is simply not possible. You need to > fsck every single subtree individually, and fsck the superproject on > its own, *without* recursing into the subprojects. And you need to be > able to clone the superproject and only one or two subprojects, and > never see it as one "atomic" big repository. and just skip the unreachability check of fsck? With this limitation a shared object store would be possible. > I really think people should think about the *BSD kind of "world" setup. > You absolutely do _not_ want supermodules to be indivisible "everything or > nothign" kind of things. You want submodules to be very much separate > repostories, although you *can* of course share the object store if you > want to (the same way git can do it between any number of totally > unrelated repositories!) You already convinced me that the "world" use-case is worthwhile. As to *can* be shared: I'd really like to have some default location for all objects so that it can be found automatically when you later decide to checkout a new submodule which has not yet been fetched. -- Martin Waitz
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