From: Heiko Voigt Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 20:31:18 GMT Subject: Re: Re: Submodule relative URL problems Message-ID: <20140113203118.GA2606@sandbox-ub> In-Reply-To: <20140113195518.GB18964@google.com> Hi, On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:55:18AM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Lianheng Tong wrote: > > > git clone W1:/.git > > Interesting. > > Thoughts: > > * More typical usage is to clone from a bare repository (A.git), which > wouldn't have this problem. But I think your case is worth > supporting, too. > > * What would you think of putting symlinks in A's .git directory? > > cd A/.git > ln -s ../B ../C ../D . > > * Perhaps as a special case when the superproject is foo/.git, git > should treat relative submodule paths as relative to foo/ instead > of relative to foo/.git/. I think that would take care of your > case without breaking existing normal practices, though after the > patch is made it still wouldn't take care of people using old > versions of git without that patch. What do you think? I do not fully get the repository layout, since some commands simply do not work. Nevertheless I think what Lianheng Tong is running into is the following: * If a superproject has *no remote* a relative submodule url is relative to the *superproject itself* * If a superproject has *a remote* a relative submodule url is relative to the *superprojects remote* The simplest solution is: Have central bare repositories for everything so that every workstation has the same remote. The second solution: Make sure both repositories have each other as a remote. But then you run into a chicken/egg problem when setting the two up. The interpretation of relative urls was a design decision back when the relative urls were introduced. I am quite sure it would produce a lot of fallout if we change that. If I get your usecase wrong it would be very helpful if you could provide us with a working script that creates the repository setup your are using. Cheers Heiko