Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

From

SVSven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>

Date

Nov 30, 2006, 15:20 UTC

Message-ID

<20061130152011.GM12463MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>

In-Reply-To

<200611301449.55171.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:49:53PM +0000, Andy Parkins wrote:

> How are these commits any different from just having one big repository?  If 

You can work on the submodule independently.

> some of the development of the submodule is contained in the supermodule then 
> it's not a submodule anymore.

On the contrary, that's exactly what a submodule is supposed to be.

> Why bother with all the effort to make a separation between submodule and 
> supermodule and then store the submodule commits in the supermodule.  That's 
> not supermodule/submodule git - that's just normal git.

[..]

> myproject (git root)
>  |----- src
>  |----- doc
>  `----- libxcb (git root)
> 

[..]

> 
> Submodules will solve this problem.  In the future I'll be able to check out 
> any commit of myproject and it will automatically checkout the right commit 
> from the libxcb repository.