From: Ping Yin Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:27:37 GMT Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics) Message-ID: <46dff0320804221827g6579919fid69d581256de90e1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > > On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Ping Yin wrote: > > > If we go back to a old HEAD or switch to another branch with changed > > path for a submodule, what should 'git submodule update' do? I think > > entries in .gitmodules should take precedence. > > Literally the most common reason for a _different_ .gitmodules in an older > revision is that the repository was moved to another machine. > > In this case, your suggestion is actively wrong. > Another common reason is the adjustment of repository directory in the central environment so i said *path*, not *url*. I agree what Josef said in the the following reply: "It makes no sense to have submodule path configuration in .git/config, as it has to be in sync with the current commit". So it should be bettter to store path info only in .gitmodules instead of $GIT_DIR/config -- Ping Yin