From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:23:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Add gitmodules(5)
Message-ID: <200706121423.02127.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580706120412o516ec39p71332d23823d7389@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday 12 June 2007, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> On 6/12/07, Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com> wrote:

> > > > KDE (superproject)
> > > >  +- kdelibs (subproject)
> > > >  |   +- admin (subproject)
> > > >  |   +- subdir1
> > > >  |   +- ...
> > > >  +- kdebase (subproject)
> > > >  |   +- admin (subproject)
> > > >  |   +- subdir2
> > > >  |   +- ...
> > > >  +- kdenetwork (subproject)
> > > >  |   +- admin (subproject)
> > > >  |   +- subdir3
> > > >  |   +- ...
> > > >  ...
> 
> In this case, I would assume that e.g. kdelibs contain a submodule
> entry for path admin in its index, accompanied by a .gitmodules file
> saying that the path admin is mapped to this or that submodule.

Exactly. That's just the "submodule" in "submodule" case we should
support, too.

> I 
> would not expect the KDE 'supersuperproject' to know about admin at
> all, neither in its index nor .gitmodules.

The admin submodule contains KDE specific things. So of course it
also would be a submodule in the grand whole KDE superduper module.
But that does not really matter.

However, to not have a lot of copies of the admin submodule
in

 .git/submodule/admin
 .git/submodule/kdelibs/.git/submodule/admin
 .git/submodule/kdebase/.git/submodule/admin
 .git/submodule/kdenetwork/.git/submodule/admin

the just suggested submodule.<name>.repopath to specify a repository
outside of .git/submodule to be shared by kdelibs,kdebase,... would
be fine.

Josef