On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:35:33AM CEST, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 24 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote: > > > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:40:20AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 May 2007, skimo@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > This patch series implements a mechanism for cloning submodules. > > > > Each submodule is specified by a 'submodule.<submodule>.url' > > > > configuration option, e.g., > > > > > > > > bash-3.00$ ./git-config --remote=http://www.liacs.nl/~sverdool/isa.git --get-regexp 'submodule\..*\.url' > > > > submodule.cloog.url /home/sverdool/public_html/cloog.git > > > > submodule.cloog.url http://www.liacs.nl/~sverdool/cloog.git > > > > > > I am sorry to complain so late in the game, but I am not really interested > > > in submodules. However, what you say here is not a task for git-config > > > IMHO, but rather for git-remote. > > > > Hmmm... git-remote does only local configuration and never gets > > any information from the other side. > > What would be the interface and how would you get the information? > > I was complaining that git-config, which is purely a local beast, gets > infected with even more obscure stuff. Junio mentions regularly that he > does not trust git-config that much, and given the number of fixes we > still get, I have to agree. So let's not put any more stuff into that > kitchen sink, especially if it has nothing to do with the configuration of > your repo. Then again, git-remote is purely a local beast too, isn't it? We could use git-remote-config for accessing remote configuration (if it's a good idea at all, which I'm not totally convinced about)... (And hope people don't confuse it with stuff related to git-remote too much.) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ Ever try. Ever fail. No matter. // Try again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett - 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
