Subject: Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

From: Martin Waitz <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:21:58 +0100

hoi :)

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 01:42:22AM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Perhaps it would be best to join those two subproject support
> solutions together: "bind" tree/commit mount header in commit
> object, and "commit" entry in a tree.

But which is the autoritative source then?
Does it give any more information?

The advantage in your proposal would be that submodules would
be visible immediately when looking at the commit,
without having to traverse the entire tree.
This may be worthwhile when showing the combined history of parent
and submodules.

But still this looks like "caching submodule information in the
commit object" and I do not know if we really want to do that.

-- 
Martin Waitz