From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:24:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT
Message-ID: <200612030224.50592.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <eksmrf$c33$1@sea.gmane.org>

lördag 02 december 2006 21:16 skrev Jakub Narebski:
> The problem with submodule as separate git repository is that if you
> move submodule (subproject) somewhere else in the repository (or just
> rename it), you have to update alternates file... and this happens not
> only on move itself, but also on checkout and reset. But that can be
> managed by having in alternates all possible places the submodule ends
> into. I don't know if it is truly a problem.

A nasty problem with separate repositories for submodules is that when you 
screw up and git complains about everything you try do do, you previously 
could do rm -rf *; git reset --hard and retry whatever you were trying to do. 
With separate repositories your submodules will be resting in /dev/null, 
unless you're very, very careful.