From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:21:33 GMT
Subject: Re: using .gitmodule as default (was: git submodule init and redundant data in .gitmodules/.git/config)
Message-ID: <20070816142133.GA26013@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <200708161553.10991.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

also sprach Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> [2007.08.16.1553 +0200]:
> The information in .gitmodules is only a default value for the
> URL, and not to be actually used. The URL in the config has to
> exist and will be used for updating. So the config value is not
> about overriding anything, but is required information.

It's not required for git-submodule status.

> The URL should not depend on the current revision you have checked
> out at the moment; otherwise, if the default URL in .gitmodules
> changed at some point in the history, and you check out some
> earlier commit in the superproject, the update of the submodule
> would not work: the submodule project still resides on the new
> URL, regardless of the old information in .gitmodules at the time
> of the old commit.

Fair point. Thanks,

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