Re: [RFC] Fourth round of support for cloning submodules

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Hi,

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:

> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:41:30AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> > > You mean like a tag "submodules" that points to a text file
> > > describing the submodules?
> > > That's a bit of a pain to set up since you would want that
> > > to be independent of your project.
> > 
> > I could imagine this to be another extension of ls-remote.
> 
> You mean extending upload-pack ?  Junio mentioned this possibility as well.
> This only solves the git:// and ssh:// case though.
> What to do with the other protocols?

As we do for the refs: put it into .git/info/refs. This file is already 
meant to "cache" the output of ls-remote for dumb protocols.

> Also, I don't really understand why it would be less of a hack
> to add it to ls-remote than to add it to git-config.
> The latter seems more natural to me.

No, not at all. git-config is about the local data. It is _meant_ to be 
private. Things you can receive by ls-remote are _meant_ to be public.

Ciao,
Dscho

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