Dear diary, on Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:12:00AM CET, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
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> (2) letting a subproject keep its own independent history that
> does not know about other subprojects even after combination
> happens (as opposed to the coolest merge, after which there is
> no git history that does not have gitk as its part).

Which can be an advantage or disadvantage depending on the situation,
but I suspect that it would be rather a disadvantage here.

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> So would Cogito subprojects support (will it be in the 0.17?),

Probably in 0.18. I would have the subprojects support complete when
it's already in, and it will be some work, while I don't want to
postpone 0.17 much anymore. But we'll see. ;)

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> but it might look less powerful when compared with the "bind" or
> "gitlink", if it comes in the form of the patch Pasky sent to
> the list, since it does not attempt to tie the versions of two
> projects together.  Certainly that makes it the easiest to use
> and understand what is going on, though.

By now (I wanted to note that in the original thread when I get to make
a new patch), I've decided to extend the format to allow extra
information stored for the subprojects:

	path\t...

This means that I will have to do preprocessing when using this as an
exclude file, but it will let me do the stuff like read-only
subprojects. I could also tie it to a specific version here, but if
gitlink/binds are after all going to get included in Git, I'd rather use
that when it is ready (although the single-git-directory approach does
not make sense to me; but I didn't read part of the thread very
carefully yet).

I think the approaches might be complementary, Cogito subprojects are
just designed for different scenarios than gitlinks.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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