hoi :)

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 02:50:45PM +0100, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
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> On Saturday 02 December 2006 11:04, Andy Parkins wrote:
> > > So what do you do with deleted submodules?
> > > You wouldn't want them to still sit around in your working directory,
> > > but you still have to preserve them.
> >=20
> > Now that is a tricky one.  Mind you, I think that problem exists for an=
y=20
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> > implementation.  I haven't got a good answer for that.
>=20
> That suggests that it is probably better to separate submodule repositori=
es
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> from their checked out working trees. Why not put the GITDIRs of the subm=
odules
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> in subdirectories of the supermodules GITDIR instead?

Why not simply use a shared object database instead?

You can still have an alternative to some standalone bare repository of
the submodule if you do not like to store submodule objects in the
supermodule repository.

--=20
Martin Waitz