Re: [PATCH 5/5] Add gitmodules(5)

From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Jun 12, 2007, 09:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20070612094931.GR955MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580706120127p649227d8gc706cb8b364d02b9@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:27:00AM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote:

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> On 6/12/07, Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> wrote:
> >Your previous patch had "_a_ path" instead of "_the_ path".
> >I prefer the former since it allows a module to be checkoud out
> >at multiple locations.
> 
> This is somewhat intentional. I want to move the submodule repos into
> .git/submodules/$name/ (with working dir) and symlink this directory

I had that in my patch series, but I got a complaint that symlinks don't work on Windows.

> Multiple checkout paths for a single submodule will bring havoc on
> this plan, so I need to ask: what is the use-case for multiple
> checkout paths?

The case where you need two different versions of the same submodule in one (presumably big) project. (Not that I need that just now.)

skimo