From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Waitz Subject: Re: .gitlink for Summer of Code Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:35:12 +0200 Message-ID: <20070327173512.GS22773@admingilde.org> References: <1174825838.12540.5.camel@localhost> <20070326220302.GH22773@admingilde.org> <7vfy7rvct2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <200703270117.59205.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="X35wERi4JU/f1kly" Cc: Josef Weidendorfer , Junio C Hamano , Eric Lesh , Matthieu Moy , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 27 19:35:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HWFZq-00038u-6k for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:35:22 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934052AbXC0RfS (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:35:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934054AbXC0RfS (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:35:18 -0400 Received: from mail.admingilde.org ([213.95.32.147]:47107 "EHLO mail.admingilde.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934052AbXC0RfQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:35:16 -0400 Received: from martin by mail.admingilde.org with local (Exim 4.50 #1) id 1HWFZg-0003Od-EA; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:35:12 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Fingerprint: B21B 5755 9684 5489 7577 001A 8FF1 1AC5 DFE8 0FB2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --X35wERi4JU/f1kly Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hoi :) On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:04:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > - walking the *global* object list is simply not possible. You need to= =20 > fsck every single subtree individually, and fsck the superproject on= =20 > its own, *without* recursing into the subprojects. And you need to be= =20 > able to clone the superproject and only one or two subprojects, and=20 > never see it as one "atomic" big repository. and just skip the unreachability check of fsck? With this limitation a shared object store would be possible. > I really think people should think about the *BSD kind of "world" setup.= =20 > You absolutely do _not_ want supermodules to be indivisible "everything o= r=20 > nothign" kind of things. You want submodules to be very much separate=20 > repostories, although you *can* of course share the object store if you= =20 > want to (the same way git can do it between any number of totally=20 > unrelated repositories!) You already convinced me that the "world" use-case is worthwhile. As to *can* be shared: I'd really like to have some default location for all objects so that it can be found automatically when you later decide to checkout a new submodule which has not yet been fetched. --=20 Martin Waitz --X35wERi4JU/f1kly Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGCVXQj/Eaxd/oD7IRAnDKAKCFFOfSEYYY3afgL7U2llo4pA1dEQCggplT k9uKJLXBtiR6HFUZgt88SRA= =57d5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X35wERi4JU/f1kly--