From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:51:26 GMT
Subject: Re: git submodules
Message-ID: <20080729085125.GJ32184@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20080729083755.GC32312@artemis.madism.org>

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:37:55AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> So okay, let's scratch this "automatic reference" thing, I see its
> limits now, so what about having a .gitmodule entry look like:
> 
>     [submodule "$path"]

This is not a "$path" but arbitrary string. Please keep that in mind.

> 	path = "$path"
> 	url = git://somewhere/
> 	tracks = master

I do like this (well, I'd just name it "branch" instead of "tracks").
I use submodules very "traditionally" just to bind external projects of
certain version to my project, but I have been already thinking about
implementing this merely as a hint for others to know what branch should
the other developers follow when updating the submodule to a newer
version.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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its true name.  -- Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie