On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Andy Parkins wrote: > I am still concerned about the submodule thing - once we push a mainline > version out with the format decided, that will be that and we'll be stuck > with it. Are we _really_ sure that it's right to have a non-object hash in > the tree objects? > > It's a fundamental change in the form of the tree: at the moment every hash in > the tree object represents another object in the same repository; with > gitlink as it is, that convention is broken. > > Let's be really, really sure. I'm not sure a big enough fuss has been made of > the fact that this is a change of repository format. Before this you could > pretty much access any repository with any version. I think it is reasonable to say that if you intend to work with a repo that contains references to submodules, then you need to upgrade your Git version. It is not like if the Git licensing fees are really prohibitive. Nicolas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html