On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:13:58AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > When you are bootstrapping, you will start by a fetch/clone of > the superproject. Why can't that tree contain necessary > information that is relevant to the superproject in question? Because git is a distributed SCM. > Isn't the information about which subprojects are used by the > superproject specific to each superproject, and also specific to > each version of the superproject (as a superproject can start > using more projects than it did before)? Perhaps for some information, but not for the "preferred" URL to get the subprojects from. That may change in time (independently of any changes in the superproject itself) and they will be different for different copies of the same superproject. skimo - 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
