From: Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:23:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Making submodules easier to work with (auto-update on checkout or merge, stash & restore submodules)
Message-ID: <1209594215.25663.864.camel@work.sfbay.sun.com>
In-Reply-To: <32541b130804301448i537a0b98ta01cecc472e20aec@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 17:48 -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> It would be awesome if you could turn the fancy behaviour of this
> bundle into patches to git-submodule, for example, and then have your
> textmate macros call the modified git-submodule.  It might be a bit of
> an uphill battle to get the patches accepted into the release, but I
> think it's worth the effort, as git-submodule in its current state is
> just a non-starter for my group at least.

Doesn't the fact that the workflows around submodules tend to differ so
much call for different incarnations of git-submodule? IOW, wouldn't
it be ok to have an alternative to git-submodule somewhere in contrib?

Thanks,
Roman.