On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 02:52:25PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> It is not that expensive to just give the SHA-1 with the URL, and to
> introduce a new namespace, say
>
> 3f... submodule/path^{URL:blablub}
>
> to say that the submodule which is connected in "HEAD:path" is available
> with the URL "blablub" and just so happens to be at commit "3f..." at the
> moment. Heck, you can even use this instead of expensive fetches to verify
> up-to-date, and even more, you can make sure that you are as up-to-date as
> the remote supermodule.
What about all the other branches?
Also, the submodule may not even be in any of the tips of the branches.
> Without some very intrusive surgery into the transport code of Git, in 22
> patches, which I am not at all comfortable with.
You're not comfortable with the number or with the patches?
There's only about four or five that deal with this git-config stuff
and any other mechanism would have to implemented as well.
skimo
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