Re: [GSoC 11] submodule improvements

From: Magnus Bäck <magnus.back@sonyericsson.com>
Date: May 8, 2011, 15:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20110508151007.GA5066@jpl.local>
In-Reply-To: <20110508120538.GA19074@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>

On Sunday, May 08, 2011 at 14:05 CEST,
     Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> wrote:

> I've been chosen to improve git submodules during the summer. My main
> focus will be to move the .git-directory away from the submodules so
> that submodules can be deleted and created in the working tree [1].

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> [1] My proposal:
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/iveqy/1

The proposal says

    The submodule system is widely used, specially within the android
    platform.

which puzzles me somewhat. The Android platform uses the Repo tool to help out with multiple gits in the same source tree, and Repo currently isn't based on submodules. Work is however ongoing to switch Repo into using submodules instead (which would make the whole tool rather redundant). Are you thinking of that work, or is there a misunderstanding somewhere?

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