From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:40:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add gitmodules(5)
Message-ID: <20070610124052.GE955MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580706100530g256de4a4yb12f4647dae06500@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 02:30:58PM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> On 6/10/07, Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> wrote:
> >On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:58:29AM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> >> >For .path a "Defaults to name of submodule" probably wouldn't hurt.
> >>
> >> True. But there might be some issues with this rule, so I'll leave it
> >> as is for now.
> >
> >And what might those issues be?
> 
> There's been some discussion about allowing a default value for path, see
>  http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/49620

Euhm... this just points back to this thread...
or are you referring to Junio's misinterpretation of the patch 1/3 
commit message?

> >It doesn't have the extensions proposed by Linus, but it seems
> >to be forward compatible with them.
> 
> I'm trying to take baby-steps with the submodule support, so the
> module/submodule extension Linus talked about would possibly come at a
> later stage.
> 
> Hmm, maybe I should just rename [module] to [submodule] right now?

I don't see the need, but if you _really_ can't resist then please do it
sooner rather than later.

skimo