From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:57:26 GMT
Subject: Re: how to update a submodule?
Message-ID: <20110102175725.GC13358@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <4D20B629.8000107@web.de>

Jens Lehmann wrote:

> Submodules don't work very well when you change URLs (that can result
> in forcing your coworkers to do a "git submodule sync" in their repo
> every time they switch to a commit with a changed URL).

For the future, it is probably most convenient to use URLs starting
with "../" or "./", which would rarely need to change.  That can even
work with passing around a tarball of bundles and a script to
reconstitute them, I think.

Thanks for some food for thought.
Jonathan