Aaron Schrab <aa...@schrab.com> writes: > At 16:48 -0700 07 Apr 2013, Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Do not report an argument to clone's --reference option is not a local >>> directory. Nothing checks for the actual directory so we have no way to >>> know if whether or not exists. Telling the user that a directory doesn't >>> exist when that isn't actually known may lead him or her on the wrong >>> path to finding the problem. >> >>I don't understand the above explanation. Could you give an example? > > I originally noticed this while trying to use a submodule as a > reference repository.
I do agree that it would be nice to dereference .git gitfile when we deal with --reference argument, but you do not want to use in-tree repository of a submodule working tree. What happens when you have to check out a version of the containing superproject that did not have the submodule you are borrowing from? The directory will disappear, leaving the borrowing repository still pointing at it with its .git/objects/info/alternates file, no? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
