From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:54:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Configurable name(s) for .gitmodules
Message-ID: <20071210165436.GG3490MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320712070800j6dd83714j265b3f7b291b855c@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:00:12AM +0800, Ping Yin wrote:
> I have a super project with many submodules. Each kind of role may
> check out different set of submodules. There are some common modules
> which are almost checked out by every role.
> 
> Here comes my question: how to implement this elegantly? If all
> submodules are put in the same .gitmodules, every role has to in the
> command line manually designate all submodules to be checked out.

You could have submodules (roles in your case) containing
other submodules, as proposed in the thread that ends in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/48643/focus=48939

skimo