RE: Uninitialized submodules as symlinks

2016-10-17 Thread David Turner
> -Original Message- > From: Duy Nguyen [mailto:pclo...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 5:46 AM > To: David Turner > Cc: Stefan Beller; git@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Uninitialized submodules as symlinks > > On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 2:59 A

RE: Uninitialized submodules as symlinks

2016-10-17 Thread David Turner
> -Original Message- > From: Heiko Voigt [mailto:hvo...@hvoigt.net] > Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2016 12:10 PM > To: David Turner > Cc: git@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Uninitialized submodules as symlinks > > On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 06:17:05PM +

Re: Uninitialized submodules as symlinks

2016-10-17 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 2:59 AM, David Turner wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Stefan Beller [mailto:sbel...@google.com] >> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 2:56 PM >> To: David Turner >> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org >> Subject: Re: Uninitialize

Re: Uninitialized submodules as symlinks

2016-10-17 Thread Heiko Voigt
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 09:48:16AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Kevin Daudt writes: > > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 06:10:17PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 06:17:05PM +, David Turner wrote: > >> > Presently, uninitialized submodules are materialized in the working >

Re: Uninitialized submodules as symlinks

2016-10-14 Thread Junio C Hamano
Kevin Daudt writes: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 06:10:17PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 06:17:05PM +, David Turner wrote: >> > Presently, uninitialized submodules are materialized in the working >> > tree as empty directories. We would like to consider having them be >>

Re: Uninitialized submodules as symlinks

2016-10-13 Thread Kevin Daudt
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 06:10:17PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 06:17:05PM +, David Turner wrote: > > Presently, uninitialized submodules are materialized in the working > > tree as empty directories. We would like to consider having them be > > symlinks. Specifically,

Re: Uninitialized submodules as symlinks

2016-10-13 Thread Heiko Voigt
On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 06:17:05PM +, David Turner wrote: > Presently, uninitialized submodules are materialized in the working > tree as empty directories. We would like to consider having them be > symlinks. Specifically, we'd like them to be symlinks into a FUSE > filesystem which retrieve

RE: Uninitialized submodules as symlinks

2016-10-07 Thread David Turner
> -Original Message- > From: Stefan Beller [mailto:sbel...@google.com] > Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 2:56 PM > To: David Turner > Cc: git@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Uninitialized submodules as symlinks > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 11:17 AM, David Turner

Re: Uninitialized submodules as symlinks

2016-10-07 Thread Stefan Beller
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 11:17 AM, David Turner wrote: > Presently, uninitialized submodules are materialized in the working tree as > empty directories. Right, there has to be something, to hint at the user that creating a file with that path is probably not what they want. > We would like to c

Uninitialized submodules as symlinks

2016-10-07 Thread David Turner
Presently, uninitialized submodules are materialized in the working tree as empty directories. We would like to consider having them be symlinks. Specifically, we'd like them to be symlinks into a FUSE filesystem which retrieves files on demand. We've actually already got a FUSE filesystem wr