Hi,
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> 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.
Okay, bad idea.
> > 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.
If it was even only one, which is as intrusive, I would still be
uncomfortable. And yes, the large number does not make me want to review
the series either.
Ciao,
Dscho
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