From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:39:52 GMT
Subject: Re: using .gitmodule as default (was: git submodule init and redundant data in .gitmodules/.git/config)
Message-ID: <200708161839.52749.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070816142133.GA26013@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

On Thursday 16 August 2007, martin f krafft wrote:
> 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.

This can show uninitialized submodules, so that's fine.

As the URL in .gitmodules is only an initial default, it probably
could be optional: if you work on a supermodule with a submodule of your own,
it is easily possible that you have no idea about what a reasonable default
of a submodule URL should be at the time you do the first supermodule
commit. It makes no sense to have to provide a bogus URL there.

Josef