Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 30, 2006, 15:30 UTC
Message-ID: <200611301530.51171.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061130152011.GM12463MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>

On Thursday 2006 November 30 15:20, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:

> You can work on the submodule independently.

It's not independent if any part of it is in the supermodule.

> > 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.

I don't think so.  I think it's just made some complicated normal repository.

> How are you going to checkout the right commit of the lixcb repo if
> you didn't store it in the supermodule ?

Well, I know what the commit is /that/ was all that was stored. So I (actually supermodule-git does):

cd $DIRECTORY_ASSOCIATED_WITH_SUBMODULE git checkout -f $COMMIT_FROM_SUPERMODULE

Obviously, this is grossly simplified. It also requires that HEAD be allowed to be an arbitrary commit rather than a branch, but that's already been generally agreed upon as a good thing.

Andy

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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE