On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:55:45PM +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:23:39PM +0000, Nigel Magnay wrote: > That too indeed (the "easier to clone" bit). OTOH, I don't like the > .git/submodules idea a lot, if you mean to put a usual $GIT_DIR layout > inside of it. With what I propose, you find objects for all your > super/sub-modules in the usual store, which eases many things. > Especially, I believe that when you replace a subdirectory of a project > with a submodule, git-blame could benefit quite a lot from this to be > able to glue history back through the submodule limits, without having > to refactor a _lot_ of code: it would merely have to dereference so > called "gitlinks" to the commit then tree, hence twice, and just do its > usual work, with your proposal, we still rely on having to recurse in > subdirectories which requires more boilerplate code. And of _course_ this is also true for git-log, which is like 10x as important for me (like I don't remember if I used git-blame this year, whereas I used git-log in the last 10 minutes ;p) -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx OOO http://www.madism.org
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