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 - 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