On Tue, 28 August 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:58:42PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>
>> The problem is that repo.or.cz needs support for that in gitweb, while
>> gitweb in turn needs support for that in git. This needs git consensus
>> on how to specify object database location (or just gitdir) for
>> submodules, to have later submodule support in gitweb.
> 
> What would be the use of that (outside of gitweb) ?

For the hypothetical (planned?) future '--recurse-submodules' option
to git-diff family, git-ls-tree and git-ls-files, git-fetch and git-push
(but I think not git-pull), perhaps git-log (besides what it supports
by the way of git-diff-tree), maybe even git-status and git-commit.
Gitweb support is a special case of git-ls-tree support, of sorts.

BTW I think this would need complementing "lightweight checkout" support,
i.e. core.gitdir (overrideable by GIT_DIR and --git-dir) and perhaps
core.objectdir (overridable by GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY) in the subproject
config itself.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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