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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
Cc: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web•de>,
	Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail•com>,
	Git <git@vger•kernel.org>, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt•net>
Subject: Re: Subtree with submodule inside?
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:32:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqr40tkxcp.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140806220832.GA12427@google.com> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Wed, 6 Aug 2014 15:08:32 -0700")

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com> writes:

>  2. Submodules aware of their superproject and of the parent's branches.
>     In other words, submodules would act as thought under refs/ they
>     had a symlink
>
> 	parent -> ../../../refs
>
>     So you could do
>
> 	git checkout --recurse-submodules master
>
> 	cd path/to/submodule
> 	git checkout parent/heads/next
>
>     This would avoid danger from "git gc" in submodules and would
>     get rid of most of the motivation for named branches in the
>     submodule, I'd think.

Are you assuming that they share their object stores?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-06 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-06 17:20 Subtree with submodule inside? Robert Dailey
2014-08-06 17:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-06 18:18   ` Robert Dailey
2014-08-06 20:14     ` Jens Lehmann
2014-08-06 22:08       ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-08-06 23:32         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-08-06 23:51           ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-08-07 16:07             ` Heiko Voigt

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