From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre Habouzit Subject: Re: git submodules Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:23:31 +0200 Message-ID: <20080728162331.GB4584@artemis.madism.org> References: <20080728162003.GA4584@artemis.madism.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="+g7M9IMkV8truYOl"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=SHA1 To: Git ML X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 28 18:24:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KNVWU-00039N-97 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:24:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758267AbYG1QXd (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:23:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758204AbYG1QXd (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:23:33 -0400 Received: from pan.madism.org ([88.191.52.104]:43025 "EHLO hermes.madism.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758125AbYG1QXc (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:23:32 -0400 Received: from madism.org (def92-12-88-177-251-208.fbx.proxad.net [88.177.251.208]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "artemis.madism.org", Issuer "madism.org" (verified OK)) by hermes.madism.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 198183BCC8 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:23:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by madism.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 16BAFA28A; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:23:31 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Followup-To: Pierre Habouzit , Git ML Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080728162003.GA4584@artemis.madism.org> X-Face: $(^e[V4D-[`f2EmMGz@fgWK!e.B~2g.{08lKPU(nc1J~z\4B>*JEVq:E]7G-\6$Ycr4<;Z!|VY6Grt]+RsS$IMV)f>2)M="tY:ZPcU;&%it2D81X^kNya0=L]"vZmLP+UmKhgq+u*\.dJ8G!N&=EvlD User-Agent: Madmutt/devel (Linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:20:03PM +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > It also has the absolutely nice property to share objects, so that > projects that replaced a subdirectory with a submodule don't see their > checkouts grow too large. Especially it "fixes" git-new-workdir, which becomes really inefficient (storage and typing-wise) when submodules are in use, since it doesn't share git_dir's for the submodules (this could also be hacked together, but again, it's so much more convenient if we have only _one_ git_dir per repository that ... oh well) --=20 =C2=B7O=C2=B7 Pierre Habouzit =C2=B7=C2=B7O madcoder@debia= n.org OOO http://www.madism.org --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkiN8oMACgkQvGr7W6HudhwnCwCgmy2aOjrwXaEEQg/w+JaF1Y6u I7IAn1hOz7xk3Iv77U5tV3Qbwhg0UHC0 =GDkm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl--