On 4/10/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> >
> > After a bit of thinking I could imagine a repo which is
> > used for integration exclusively (no compilation or looking
> > at the files at all).
>
> Well, you also cannot *commit* to a bare repository, so it's a bit
> pointless for integration reasons. You'd still have to commit all changes
> somewhere else.

Yes. Subprojects are push-only for storing and reference purposes.
Superproject can have integrated data checks in Makefiles.

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> That said, it's definitely designed so that if you want to automate
> tracking other peoples bare repositories, you can do so: you'd just have
> to *really* script it with something like
>
>         git update-index --cacheinfo 0160000 <sha1> <dirname>
>
> (which is how you could create those commits to a bare repo too, so it's
> not like this is really even any different)

Nice :)
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