Re: Submodules

From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Aug 8, 2007, 10:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20070808102710.GI999MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <a1bbc6950708071610g4ea4d874t458cec14a444b519@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:10:38PM -0700, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:

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> Yeah, I've already went thru these. But I want (much) more details.
> I can ask a bunch of random questions on this list, like:
> 
> * Why after 'submodule update' it becomes detached, what if I want it
> to stay on certain branch?

You'd need to have a way to specify which branch you want to have updated. There was some discussion about this some time ago and the general conclusion was that a detached HEAD was the best solution.

> * How do I control which branches are fetched?

Currently, you can't.

> * What if I do 'commit -a' standing in /super, will /super/submodule
> commit as well?

No.

> * What if I'm standing in /super/submodule and do 'commit -a'? Will
> super notice it in any way?

Any commit in the submodule will be seen as a "change" to the submodule from the perspective of the supermodule.

skimo