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Re: [PATCH 0 of 7] [resend] - Improve handling remotes, origin, submodules

From
Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 4, 2008, 03:52 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> As far as I understood, your problem was _purely_ a submodule issue.  I 
> find it utterly unnerving that you keep trying to sneak in _anything_ 
> unrelated to submodules.
>

It is not purely about submodules, but in fact about a centralized concept (named "origin") disrupting a distributed workflow using submodules in a distributed version control system.

> I am getting pretty angry that you keep trying to complicating things in 
> that area!

It is easy to substitute emotion for sound technical arguments. Please don't, it helps no one.

Mark
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Message 10 of 19 in “[resend] - Improve handling remotes, origin, submodules”
  1. [resend] - Improve handling remotes, origin, submodulesMark Levedahl, Feb 3, 2008
  2. 1/7 Teach remote machinery about core.origin config variableMark Levedahl, Feb 3, 2008
  3. 2/7 git-remote - Unset core.origin when deleting the default remoteMark Levedahl, Feb 3, 2008
  4. 3/7 git-clone - Set remotes.origin config variableMark Levedahl, Feb 3, 2008
  5. 4/7 git-submodule - Possibly inherit parent's default remote on init/cloneMark Levedahl, Feb 3, 2008
  6. 5/7 Teach git-submodule to use top-level remote when updating subprojectsMark Levedahl, Feb 3, 2008
  7. 6/7 git-submodule - Allow adding a submodule in-placeMark Levedahl, Feb 3, 2008
  8. 7/7 Add t/t7401 - test submodule interaction with remotes machineryMark Levedahl, Feb 3, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinFeb 3, 2008
  10. Mark LevedahlFeb 4, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinFeb 4, 2008
  12. Mark LevedahlFeb 4, 2008
  13. Johannes SchindelinFeb 4, 2008
  14. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2008
  15. Johannes SchindelinFeb 4, 2008
  16. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2008
  17. Johannes SchindelinFeb 4, 2008
  18. Steffen ProhaskaFeb 4, 2008
  19. Johannes SchindelinFeb 4, 2008

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