Hi,
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:02:41PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:41:30AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > > 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.
>
> OK... so what should git-update-server-info put in this file for submodules?
> Or, equivalently, what should be the output of ls-remote?
>
> Right now its a list of pairs of revs(sha1) and refs.
> For submodules we want a connection between a submodule name
> and one or more URLs where the submodule can be found.
> How are you going to squeeze that into info/refs without confusing
> older versions of git?
I wonder if the "ref^{blub}" syntax could be used for that: change "blub"
to the URL, or "sub:URL" or something.
Ciao,
Dscho
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