From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: A new type of symbolic refs
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 12:21:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYjGBg6ep07OCbdGkwZkauZ8T07d-Z7L4_wym02zaOsMA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B998F81875C940B1B7D4D26764B44B04@PhilipOakley>
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 6:04 AM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:
>
> If I understand this correctly, the new type is the 'starts_with(buf, "repo:"))'.
>
> It just wasn't obvious from the text that the new type is "repo:" as you
> never spell it out in the commit message. Should it be included in the
> message?
>
> Have I understood correctly?
Yes, you understood correctly.
The idea is to allow submodules to "borrow" its refs from the superproject.
My original idea was to only borrow HEAD from the superproject, but this
can be extended to more branches.
By having a more generic way of borrowing refs from another repo, this
can also be a different repo than the superproject (I don't know the use
case for this yet, but let's not have a to specific proposal).
Let's see how this RFC fares in further interest from the community.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-17 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-11 1:06 [PATCH] RFC: A new type of symbolic refs Stefan Beller
2017-07-16 13:04 ` Philip Oakley
2017-07-16 14:20 ` Philip Oakley
2017-07-17 19:21 ` Stefan Beller [this message]
2017-07-17 21:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-17 23:22 ` Stefan Beller
2017-07-18 19:03 ` Junio C Hamano
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