Re: Submodule using different repository URLs

From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Jul 13, 2009, 12:28 UTC
Message-ID: <200907131428.43652.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <64652870-CF95-49A7-920A-0F9A6C202B40@petervoss.org>

On Monday 13 July 2009, Peter Voss wrote:

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> On 13.07.2009, at 12:59, Johan Herland wrote:
> > You might be able to pull this off using relative submodule URLs.
>
> That's a good hint. Unfortunately I can't use this to go up 2
> directories. I.e. I can't get from
> git@github.com:xxx/mymodule.git
> to
> git@github.com:yyy/foo.git
>
> Using the relative URL ../../yyy/foo.git leads to the result:
> Clone of 'git@github.com:xxx/yyy/foo.git' into submodule path 'foo'
> failed
>
> So I basically cannot replace the xxx part.

This is due to a small bug in git-submodule.sh. In the resolve_relative_url() function, when repeatedly unwrapping '../'s from $url in the while loop, the line remoteurl="${remoteurl%/*}" removes everything _after_ the last slash, which does not work for the git@github.com:xxx part of your URL.

This should be relatively easy to fix, although maybe not as straightforwardly trivial as it might seem at first sight.

I don't have the time to look into this now, so feel free to take a stab at it.

Have fun! :)

...Johan

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Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
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