From: Peter Voss Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:51:56 GMT Subject: Re: Submodule using different repository URLs 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: > 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 > Hope this helps, > > > Have fun! :) > > ...Johan > > > -- > Johan Herland, > www.herland.net