Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] git-submodule: multi-level module definition

From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 5, 2008, 02:13 UTC
Message-ID: <46dff0320803041813y2d2acfddjb7f973a54e5d64c9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803041608420.22527@racer.site>

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
>  In "git remote", we also have a notion of groups.  It looks much nicer,
>  IMO.  So why not do this?
>
>  [submodules]
>         service = crawler search
>         crawler = util imcrawler
>         search = util imsearch
>

Hmm, it seems more brief.

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>
>  However, I think that being able to specify submodule groups recursively
>  is only adding to confusion, so I would even prefer this:
>
>  [submodules]
>         service = util imcrawler imsearch
>         crawler = util imcrawler
>         search = util imsearch
>  [...]
>

This is fine when number of modules is not much, or user may feel inconvenient since they have to type so many module names. A hierarchy of modules can help much when having a group of common modules which should be included in most of role-related logical moduels.

>  Ciao,
>  Dscho
>

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Ping Yin