From: Avery Pennarun Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:38:36 GMT Subject: Re: Git Submodule Usage Pattern Message-ID: <32541b131002161238h5549882fv89ab90812b3e8131@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100216200035.GA19834@inner.home.ulmdo.de> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Andreas Krey wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:48:16 +0000, Avery Pennarun wrote: >> Three suggestions I can offer: > ... >> 2) Try using relative repo paths (like ../foo.git) in .gitmodules. > > Is that a 'try', or are those supposed to work? It works. The reason I said "try" is that in order to *make* it work, you may have to move your repositories around so that you can reach one using a relative path from the other (ie. it's easiest if they're on the same server at the same level of the directory hierarchy). Avery