From: Johan Herland Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:09:51 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Referring to a submodule state recorded in a supermodule from within the submodule Message-ID: <200811051909.51970.johan@herland.net> In-Reply-To: <7vhc6mkqxb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johan Herland writes: > > I have a stand-alone project, "foo", that I work on myself. The > > "foo" project is included as a submodule in two other projects, > > "bar" and "baz", that I don't have any direct affiliation with. > > > > Semi-regularly, I like to keep tabs on bar and baz, to see what > > versions of foo they are using, what changes they have made to foo, > > and if there are things I could pick up from them, or maybe even > > things they could learn from eachother. > > > > Doing this currently is quite tedious: > > 1. Clone/Fetch bar and initialize/update its foo submodule > > 2. Clone/Fetch baz and initialize/update its foo submodule > > If I am reading you right and you are only interested in the part > "foo" in these projects, there is something wrong with the setup of > "bar" and "baz". > > The submodule mechanism is designed to bind an independent project on > its own as a subdirectory of another project. It seems to me that > the problem is that "bar" and "baz" projects do not give direct > access to clone "foo" part of them for you or other people. No, they do. I can clone foo directly from bar/baz's server. The problem is that I cannot quickly get at which revision of foo is used by bar/baz without tedious cloning and interacting with the superrepos. I basically want to quickly answer questions like "What are the differences between bar's foo and baz's foo (and my own foo)?" ...Johan -- Johan Herland, www.herland.net