a good reading

[Gábor Farkas]

Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> On 8/26/07, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>> On 2007-08-27 00:44, Bela Babik <teki321 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> http://lwn.net/Articles/246381/
>>> The submodule feature seems to be a nice one.
>> The submodule feature seems nice, but I'm not sure how well it works
>> with thousands of submodules, i.e. something like the FreeBSD ports tree
>> where each port is a submodule :-/
>>
> It looks very close to the forest extension (maybe with a better integration).
> 

do they have some documentation about how git-submodules work? i 
couldn't find anything except the manpages...

do they simply store a list of (repo-url,version,local-path) pairs 
somewhere in the repository, and then offer commands to fetch those 
repositories and to modify that list?

gabor