From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:00:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add an update=none option for 'loose' submodules
Message-ID: <20110822200052.GC11745@sandbox-rc>
In-Reply-To: <7vy5yujtr2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 01:37:53PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:28:31AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> writes:
> >> > We have been talking about loose submodules for some time:
> >> 
> >> Also before introducing a new terminology "loose submodule", please define
> >> it somewhere. It feels confusing to me that a normal submodule, which
> >> shouldn't be auto-cloned nor auto-updated without "submodule init", needs
> >> to be called by a name other than simply a "submodule" but with an
> >> adjuctive "loose submodule".
> >
> > Thats why I avoided talking about it in the docs. For the commit message
> > I thought it would be kind of intuitive but I can update the commit
> > message so that it becomes more clear.
> 
> That sounds like a good thing to do.

I discovered that I only talked in the cover letter about the term
'loose'. Since that will not go into any commit I guess we can keep the
series this way?

Cheers Heiko