Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about gitlinks

From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Apr 11, 2007, 23:47 UTC
Message-ID: <461D73AD.9000205@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704101235160.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
>   
>> So when moving the kdelibs submodule around, you would
>> have to update the .gitmodules file.
>>     
>
> Right. The assumption here is:
>  - submodules almost never actually change. You might add a new one 
>    occasionally, and once a decade you might do some bigger 
>    re-organization, but in general it's pretty much static.
>  - when you do move submodules around, it's probably a big flag-day anyway 
>    (ie I would expect that it's a big reorg, and that you'd quite likely 
>    expect developers to have to re-check out their tree if you did major 
>    surgery).
>

Also, in the Perl 5 Perforce conversion there are a number of "submodules" (ie, bundled modules with their own history) that move around a lot. In some tree representations used during the conversion process they might even appear twice in a given tree with differing versions.

Sam.