Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Dec 12, 2006, 08:32 UTC
Message-ID: <457E692E.7060708@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <1165602554.19135.309.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com>

Jon Loeliger wrote:

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> On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 14:13, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>> So this is why it's really important that the submodule really is a git 
>> repository in its own right, and why committing stuff in the supermodule 
>> NEVER affect the submodule itself directly (it might _cause_ you to also 
>> do a commit in the submodule indirectly, but the submodule commit MUST be 
>> totally independent, and stand on its own).
> 
> An implication of this is that the entire administrative
> responsibility for having some super-sub module interaction
> lies entirely with the supermodule.
>

That's a good thing. I wouldn't want the openssl maintainers to have to bother with every project that uses their code, and I'm fairly certain they feel the same.

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