Re: Expose subprojects as special files to "git diff" machinery

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On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:
> > 	+++ b/sub-A
> > 	@@ -1 +1 @@
> > 	-Subproject commit 2de597b5ad348b7db04bd10cdd38cd81cbc93ab5
> > 	+Subproject commit e8f11a45c5c6b9e2fec6d136d3fb5aff75393d42
> 
> Isn't this dangerous because it looks just like a normal diff with a 
> file being rewritten, when in truth it is a tree entry record being 
> rewritten.

Well, that's exactly what symlinks do too.

You have to look at the mode to know what the rewriting *means*.

But yeah, I wouldn't object at all to making it an "extended git header" 
instead (possibly just for subprojects, possibly for symlinks too)

		Linus
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