Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date: Nov 20, 2006, 23:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20061120232904.GC20736@admingilde.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611201501230.3338@woody.osdl.org>

hoi :)

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 03:05:47PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> Now, to get everything to work seamlessly within such a commit thing 
> might be a fair amount of work, but I'm not sure you even _need_ to. It 
> might be ok to just say "subproject 'xyzzy' differs" in the diff, for 
> example, and have some rudimentary support for "git status" etc talking 
> about subprojects that need to be committed.

this is exactly the status of my implementation at the moment ;-)

Well, it does not yet explicitly tell that a subproject diffs, but it just creates a diff of the two commit objects.

I guess we need some command line option to say if we only want to know about that the submodule changes or if the diff should recurse into it.

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Martin Waitz