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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@...>

To: Martin Waitz <tali@...>

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Git Mailing List <git@...>, Junio C Hamano <junkio@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about gitlinks

Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 4:49 am

On 4/11/07, Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> wrote:
quoted text> > >Always read and write one dedicated branch (hardcoded "master" or
> > >configurable) when the supermodule wants to access a submodule.
> >
> > In this case it does not correspond to the working tree anymore.
> > HEAD is the "closest" to working tree of submodule.
>
> yes.

"Yes" what? It should _not_ correspond to HEAD?

quoted text> This has been discussed in length already.
> Please have a look at the archives.

I should. But at least a short summary of the reasons
would be nice.

quoted text> Your working tree now contains a complete git repository which has
> features which are not available for normal files.  Notable, you
> have the possibility to create branches in the submodule.
> If you insist in using HEAD you throw away those submodule capabilities.
>

In this (a very special, I believe) case, why not use git update-index
--cacheinfo?
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[PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 12:12 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 12:46 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), Alex Riesen, (Tue Apr 10, 9:04 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), Martin Waitz, (Wed Apr 11, 4:32 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), Alex Riesen, (Wed Apr 11, 4:42 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), Martin Waitz, (Wed Apr 11, 4:57 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 11:13 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), Alex Riesen, (Tue Apr 10, 11:48 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 12:07 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), Junio C Hamano, (Tue Apr 10, 3:32 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 4:11 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), Junio C Hamano, (Tue Apr 10, 4:52 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), Sam Ravnborg, (Tue Apr 10, 5:02 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), Junio C Hamano, (Tue Apr 10, 5:27 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), Nicolas Pitre, (Tue Apr 10, 5:03 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), J. Bruce Fields, (Sun Apr 15, 7:21 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?), Alex Riesen, (Tue Apr 10, 12:43 pm)

[PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about gitli..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 12:20 am)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Martin Waitz, (Wed Apr 11, 4:06 am)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Apr 11, 11:16 am)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Martin Waitz, (Wed Apr 11, 7:54 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Josef Weidendorfer, (Thu Apr 12, 11:12 am)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Brian Gernhardt, (Wed Apr 11, 9:57 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Sam Vilain, (Wed Apr 11, 6:49 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Andy Parkins, (Wed Apr 11, 5:47 am)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Martin Waitz, (Wed Apr 11, 7:31 am)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Alex Riesen, (Wed Apr 11, 4:29 am)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Martin Waitz, (Wed Apr 11, 4:36 am)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Junio C Hamano, (Wed Apr 11, 5:15 am)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Martin Waitz, (Wed Apr 11, 6:03 am)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Junio C Hamano, (Wed Apr 11, 4:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Martin Waitz, (Wed Apr 11, 6:19 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Apr 11, 6:36 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Alex Riesen, (Wed Apr 11, 4:49 am)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Martin Waitz, (Wed Apr 11, 5:20 am)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Josef Weidendorfer, (Tue Apr 10, 12:28 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Sam Vilain, (Wed Apr 11, 7:36 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 2:45 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Torgil Svensson, (Wed Apr 11, 8:42 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Martin Waitz, (Wed Apr 11, 8:56 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Torgil Svensson, (Thu Apr 12, 5:23 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Josef Weidendorfer, (Tue Apr 10, 3:29 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 3:45 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Sam Vilain, (Wed Apr 11, 7:47 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Apr 11, 8:13 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Andy Parkins, (Tue Apr 10, 3:04 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., David Lang, (Tue Apr 10, 3:41 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Junio C Hamano, (Tue Apr 10, 4:06 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 3:20 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Junio C Hamano, (Tue Apr 10, 4:19 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 4:33 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Sam Vilain, (Wed Apr 11, 8:12 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Apr 11, 10:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Sam Vilain, (Wed Apr 11, 11:56 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Martin Waitz, (Wed Apr 11, 8:35 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Alex Riesen, (Tue Apr 10, 12:50 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Josef Weidendorfer, (Tue Apr 10, 1:23 pm)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Frank Lichtenheld, (Tue Apr 10, 4:40 am)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 10:55 am)

Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about g..., Alex Riesen, (Tue Apr 10, 7:31 am)

[PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 12:15 am)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Sam Vilain, (Wed Apr 11, 6:41 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Apr 11, 6:48 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Sam Vilain, (Wed Apr 11, 6:59 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Dana How, (Wed Apr 11, 7:30 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Apr 11, 7:16 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Apr 11, 8:34 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Apr 11, 9:52 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Apr 11, 10:00 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Apr 11, 10:06 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Apr 11, 10:28 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, David Lang, (Wed Apr 11, 7:05 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Apr 11, 7:53 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Sam Vilain, (Wed Apr 11, 8:03 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, David Lang, (Wed Apr 11, 7:30 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Apr 11, 10:14 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Dana How, (Thu Apr 12, 2:32 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Apr 12, 3:17 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Dana How, (Sun Apr 15, 2:50 am)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Rogan Dawes, (Fri Apr 13, 5:00 am)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Apr 13, 11:23 am)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, David Lang, (Thu Apr 12, 1:18 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Apr 11, 10:30 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links, Dana How, (Wed Apr 11, 8:00 pm)

[PATCH 4/6] Add "S_IFDIRLNK" file mode infrastructure for gi..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 12:14 am)

[PATCH 3/6] Add 'resolve_gitlink_ref()' helper function, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 12:14 am)

Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add 'resolve_gitlink_ref()' helper function, Alex Riesen, (Tue Apr 10, 5:38 am)

Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add 'resolve_gitlink_ref()' helper function, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 10:58 am)

Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add 'resolve_gitlink_ref()' helper function, Josef Weidendorfer, (Tue Apr 10, 11:54 am)

Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add 'resolve_gitlink_ref()' helper function, Alex Riesen, (Tue Apr 10, 11:35 am)

Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add 'resolve_gitlink_ref()' helper function, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 11:52 am)

Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add 'resolve_gitlink_ref()' helper function, Alex Riesen, (Tue Apr 10, 11:57 am)

Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add 'resolve_gitlink_ref()' helper function, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 12:16 pm)

[PATCH 2/6] Avoid overflowing name buffer in deep directory ..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 12:13 am)

[PATCH 1/6] diff-lib: use ce_mode_from_stat() rather than me..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 10, 12:13 am)

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