On 5/24/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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> "Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I think the whole point of the 'remote config' stuff is to get an
> > unversioned/out-of-tree .gitmodules file, right?
>
> Why does this have to be out-of-tree and unversioned to begin
> with?

Probably to cater for subprojects moving away from the url mentioned
in the versioned .gitmodules file.

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> When you are bootstrapping, you will start by a fetch/clone of
> the superproject.  Why can't that tree contain necessary
> information that is relevant to the superproject in question?

It sure can, and it would be the most natural solution. I just wanted
to mention an alternative to the 'git config --remote' solution.

--
larsh
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