Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Jul 20, 2008, 22:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20080720224040.GG32184@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7v3am5iae8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 06:58:55PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> * pb/submodule (Wed Jul 16 21:11:40 2008 +0200) 7 commits
>  . t7403: Submodule git mv, git rm testsuite
>  . git rm: Support for removing submodules
>  . git mv: Support moving submodules
>  . submodule.*: Introduce simple C interface for submodule lookup by
>    path
>  . git submodule add: Fix naming clash handling
>  . t7400: Add short "git submodule add" testsuite
>  . git-mv: Remove dead code branch
> 
> Long overdue usability improvement series for submodule.  Very much
> welcomed.  It would be nice to have some submodule improvements in 1.6.0,
> but it would take us a few more rounds to hit 'next' with this, and it
> will not be in 'master' when 1.6.0 ships.

Do you think this would create serious problems?

One thing this patch series depends on now is changing the git mv semantics in a rather non-trivial way, which is something we might want to do in a major release instead of within the 1.6 series.

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis