Re: Submodule using different repository URLs

From: Peter Voss <info@petervoss.org>
Date: Jul 13, 2009, 11:51 UTC
Message-ID: <64652870-CF95-49A7-920A-0F9A6C202B40@petervoss.org>
In-Reply-To: <200907131259.42313.johan@herland.net>

Hi Johan,

On 13.07.2009, at 12:59, Johan Herland wrote:

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> On Monday 13 July 2009, Peter Voss wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to use the git submodule feature to move part of my code to a
>> different repository at github.
>>
>> The issue is that developers should use different repository URLs for
>> the submodule depending on whether they have commit rights or not.
>>
>> At the beginning I was using the public URL to set-up the submodule:
>> git submodule add git://github.com/x/mymodule.git mymodule
>>
>> The issue is that some developers are working behind a firewall that
>> blocks the git protocol. These could only use the git@github.com:x/
>> mymodule.git URL to get access.
>> But other developers can only go through the public URL git://
>> github.com/x/mymodule.git. So whatever I use it won't work for
>> everybody.
>>
>> What's the best way to deal with that? Could I set-up different
>> repository URLs for one and the same submodule and use which one is
>> appropriate?
>
> You might be able to pull this off using relative submodule URLs. If  
> the
> submodule URLs in .gitmodules are relative (i.e. ../foo.git or
> similar), they will be resolved to absolute URLs using the origin URL
> of the super-repo. I.e. if you cloned the super-repo from
> git://github.com/x/mymodule.git, the ../foo.git submodule will be
> cloned from git://github.com/x/foo.git, and if you cloned from
> git@github.com:x/mymodule.git, the submodule will be cloned from
> git@github.com:x/foo.git.

That's a good hint. Unfortunately I can't use this to go up 2 directories. I.e. I can't get from git@github.com:xxx/mymodule.git to git@github.com:yyy/foo.git

Using the relative URL ../../yyy/foo.git leads to the result: Clone of 'git@github.com:xxx/yyy/foo.git' into submodule path 'foo' failed

So I basically cannot replace the xxx part.

Anyway, thanks for the hint. --Peter

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> Hope this helps,
>
>
> Have fun! :)
>
> ...Johan
>
>
> -- 
> Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
> www.herland.net