On Saturday 02 December 2006 21:43, Martin Waitz wrote:
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> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 02:50:45PM +0100, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> > 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.
> > > 
> > > Now that is a tricky one.  Mind you, I think that problem exists for any 
> > > implementation.  I haven't got a good answer for that.
> > 
> > That suggests that it is probably better to separate submodule repositories
> > from their checked out working trees. Why not put the GITDIRs of the submodules
> > in subdirectories of the supermodules GITDIR instead?
> 
> Why not simply use a shared object database instead?

Sure. I have no problem with this.

But can we go one step further?
AFAICS your submodules store the .git/ directories of submodules directly
at submodule position in the working tree - but you have a link .git/objects
into the object database of the supermodule.
When the user wants to delete the submodule, he would remove this .git/ directory,
too. So you loose the .git/refs of the submodule etc. I would suggest to put
the submodule .git dirs into the .git dir of the supermodule.

Josef
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