From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:07:45 GMT
Subject: Re: submodules' shortcomings, was Re: RFC: display dirty submodule working directory in git gui and gitk
Message-ID: <201001051607.46310.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100105142727.GA83546@book.hvoigt.net>

On Tuesday 05 January 2010, Heiko Voigt wrote:
> P.S.: Additionally (for my use case) we could add a "hint mechanism"
> which allows git to "guess" a new submodules address. For example in
> case I have all my local clones on
> "git@my.server.net:<modulename>.git". Now when a new submodule gets
> seen in .gitmodules it will infer the address from the hint
> configuration and not take the original one from upstream.

This can be achieved today, if the upstream .gitmodules uses relative 
submodule URLs. I normally place super-repo and submodules in a single 
directory on the server, and use submodule URLs of the 
form "../<modulename>.git". Now, downstream developers can "git 
clone --mirror" the repos from my server, and - as long as they 
preserve the directory layout - provide their own complete server 
mirror, without editing .gitmodules. Granted, the existing submodule 
tools don't make working with relative submodule URLs particularily 
easy...


...Johan

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Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
www.herland.net