Martin Waitz wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:37:06PM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote: >> Including the same project several times is indeed interesting. Maybe the >> subprojects should be "light checkouts" (I believe something like this was >> already discussed on the list sometime). Those would be .git dirs, that would >> only have HEAD and pointer to another .git dir with everything else. > > Well, even if they might share a lot of objects they might be included > for completely different reasons and so might need to work with > different communities (remote entries, branches, etc.). > > So sharing objects makes sense, sharing the rest of .git is not > neccessary. One of the final ideas for "lightweight checkout" was having in .git/config the location of "true" $GIT_DIR (or parts of it: GIT_INDEX_FILE, GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY), and "shadowing" the rest of "true $GIT_DIR" with what is present in .git. It means that you can have .git/index and .git/HEAD, and if you don't find appropriate .git/refs/heads/master file you look to "true $GIT_DIR". -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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
