Re: Gitweb and submodules

From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Jul 29, 2007, 16:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20070729163747.GJ31114MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <200707282239.29340.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 10:39:28PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> On Sat, 28 July 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 12:29:16PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> >> It has to be configuration variable because the 
> >> location of repository which has submodule objects doesn't change when 
> >> checking out (or rewinding) to different commit in supermodule.
> > 
> > Let's hope Pasky provides a way to set this information...
> 
> Why Pasky?

I was thinking about projects on repo.or.cz. We'd want to have a way to specify the locations of submodules.

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> I am thinking about the following sequence to search for submodule
> objects:
> 
> From $GIT_DIR/config:
>   submodule.$name.objects (absolute or relative to gitdir of superproject)
>   submodule.$name.gitdir  (absolute or relative to gitdir of superproject)

Do we really need both of these?

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>   submodule.$name.url     (to find GIT_DIR, if it is local filesystem URL)
> 
> If there is working directory, from .gitmodules file in top level
> of working directory:
>   submodule.$name.path/.git (relative to toplevel of working directory)

Having a relative path for the URL in .gitmodules in a public repo doesn't seem very useful to me. I know it's only meant as a default value, but if it is a relative path, then it won't work for anyone cloning the superproject.

skimo