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Re: Bug with branches/merges in submodules

From
Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 14, 2021, 12:25 UTC
Message-ID
<20c07aef-d3e4-0ab6-e6f4-f9179f3950a2@gmail.com>
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Hi Mel,
Le 2021-07-14 à 07:07, Mel Dafert a écrit :
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> Hello Philippe,
> Thank you for your reply, and the points to the mailing list.
> 
> 
> I would thus like to correct myself, and refile this as a feature request - it would
> be very helpful to me to have this as an option, possibly even with one that can be set in the config, similar to
> 'diff.submodule=log'.
> 
> I would be open to implementing this - I might need some mentoring, however, as
> this would be my first time contributing (and reading the git codebase).

That would great! The page "Hacking Git" [1] has several pointers to interesting ressources to learn about the code and the contribution process. One of these is the "My First Contribution" tutorial. [2]

Cheers,
Philippe.

[1] https://git.github.io/Hacking-Git/ [2] https://git-scm.com/docs/MyFirstContribution

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