Re: RFC: submodule terminology

From: Raimund Bauer <ray007@gmx.net>
Date: May 21, 2007, 06:44 UTC
Message-ID: <1179729886.6187.15.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <7v3b1rje45.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 15:59 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> I was wondering if we can get away by just calling them
> "projects", "projects containd in the superproject", etc., as I
> tend to agree with Linus, who used the term "superproject
> support" in his talk, that this is not really about creating
> "subproject" which are somehow different from ordinary projects,
> but more about supporting superprojects that can contain/point
> at other projects, which we did not have before 1.5.2 happened.

The "super" or "sub" only comes from where in a hierarchy it is used. Somewhere in the middle of the hierarchy it would be both?

I'd have said a repository can have many "modules" or "projects", and each of those can have several branches. A module can hold other modules, but from its POV also be part of a super-module (or superproject), we just have to take care to not build loops.

Is my view of the world correct so far?

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best regards

  Ray