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

From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 12, 2007, 13:50 UTC
Message-ID: <200706121550.28226.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <200706121540.52753.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

On Tuesday 12 June 2007, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:

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> IMHO sharing of the admin submodule repository should even be possible
> if I have a clone of kdelibs and kdebase independent of the big
> KDE superproject.
> 
> It would be nice to allow submodule.<name>.repopath configs globally
> in ~/.gitconfig, and cloning kdelibs should automatically do the
> right thing, ie. use the already available admin repo for the kdelibs
> clone.

I just realize that this should be already possible now by setting submodule.<name>.url in ~/.gitconfig. It could automatically use "git-clone -l -s -n ..." if the URL is local.

Josef