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Re: Intricacies of submodules [was: Migrating svn to git with heavy use of externals]

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 9, 2008, 20:27 UTC
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On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 02:34 -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
>  > So everyone will have all the necessary refs anyway; as long as
>  > git-checkout checks them out, .gitmodules shouldn't have to exist at
>  > all, becaues there's nothing "special" for git-submodule to do.
>
>  I would very much like to have that, yes. Please do provide additional
>  details on how's your setup is different from mine.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant that there's no fundamental reason that this shouldn't be possible; as far as I know, there's no way to make git do this in an obvious way (yet).

It's encouraging that other people seem to want the same behaviour as me, which means I might get to working on it sooner :) Not that this should discourage you from trying, of course: perhaps I'm just missing something too.

Note: I think a big part of the secret is using "." as the location of
the submodule's repository in .gitmodules.  "git submodule add" seems
to expand . to a full path, but you can change it by hand if you edit
the file.
Have fun,
Avery
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Message 47 of 48 in “Migrating svn to git with heavy use of externals”
  1. D. Stuart FreemanMar 31, 2008
  2. D. Stuart FreemanApr 8, 2008
  3. Avery PennarunApr 8, 2008
  4. D. Stuart FreemanApr 8, 2008
  5. Avery PennarunApr 8, 2008
  6. D. Stuart FreemanApr 8, 2008
  7. Roman ShaposhnikApr 9, 2008
  8. Avery PennarunApr 9, 2008
  9. Roman ShaposhnikApr 9, 2008
  10. Avery PennarunApr 9, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2008
  12. Intricacies of submodules [was: Migrating svn to git with heavy use of externals]Roman Shaposhnik, Apr 10, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 10, 2008
  14. Roman ShaposhnikApr 10, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2008
  16. Ping YinApr 11, 2008
  17. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2008
  18. Roman ShaposhnikApr 12, 2008
  19. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2008
  20. Roman ShaposhnikApr 14, 2008
  21. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2008
  22. Ping YinApr 15, 2008
  23. Roman V. ShaposhnikApr 16, 2008
  24. Jeremy Maitin-ShepardApr 17, 2008
  25. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2008
  26. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2008
  27. Roman V. ShaposhnikApr 17, 2008
  28. Martin LanghoffApr 17, 2008
  29. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2008
  30. Sverre RabbelierApr 17, 2008
  31. Martin LanghoffApr 17, 2008
  32. Sverre RabbelierApr 17, 2008
  33. Martin LanghoffApr 17, 2008
  34. Ping YinApr 18, 2008
  35. Dmitry PotapovApr 17, 2008
  36. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2008
  37. Ping YinApr 18, 2008
  38. Jakub NarebskiApr 18, 2008
  39. Ping YinApr 12, 2008
  40. Roman ShaposhnikApr 14, 2008
  41. Ping YinApr 12, 2008
  42. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2008
  43. Ping YinApr 12, 2008
  44. Ping YinApr 10, 2008
  45. Roman ShaposhnikApr 10, 2008
  46. Intricacies of submodules [was: Migrating svn to git with heavy use of externals]Roman Shaposhnik, Apr 9, 2008
  47. Avery PennarunApr 9, 2008
  48. Avery PennarunApr 18, 2008

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