From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:08:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Let .git/config specify the url for submodules
Message-ID: <200706011008.38063.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580705301717h4e9b127fr21ee19764f8ec288@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday 31 May 2007, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> On 5/28/07, Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This changes git-submodule in a few ways:
> 
> Please don't apply the "Let .git/config specify the url for
> submodules" patch, I'm having second thoughts ;-)
> 
> Your design outline in
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/48287 is
> obviously superior, and I'd like to take a stab at it with something
> like this:
> 
> 1. 'git-submodule init' saves submodule name and suggested url from
> .gitmodules into .git/config (submodule.$name.url)
> 
> 2. 'git-submodule update' keeps the work tree updated for submodules
> with five separate (and optional) operations:
>   a) git-clone --bare $url .git/submodules/$name.git
>   b) git-clone -l -s .git/submodules/$name.git $path
>   c) cd .git/submodules/$name.git && git-fetch
>   d) cd $path && git-fetch
>   e) cd $path && git-checkout $sha1
> 
> 3) 'git-submodule push' runs something like 'cd $path && git push
> origin $branch', where $branch is found in .gitmodules
> (path.$path.branch).

So if you need superproject related corrections in the submodule,
you always have to do it on branch "path.$path.branch" in the
submodule to get it saved?

I would assume that pushing the current branch should be enough.
If you want to play with multiple different "corrections" on
different branches in the submodule, you do not want to force
the branch name to a unique one given in .gitmodules.

Josef