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

From: Imran M Yousuf <imyousuf@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 5, 2008, 07:40 UTC
Message-ID: <7bfdc29a0803042340k2ea6fc1cq435205f1da71bbb0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320803042316m1921f657wacf63a63491bbda0@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Imran M Yousuf <imyousuf@gmail.com> wrote:
>   > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
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>  >  >  .gitmodules with with multiple level of indirection
>   >  >  ------------------------------------------------------
>   >  >  [submodule "service"]
>   >  >    submodule = crawler
>   >  >    submodule = search
>   >  >  [submodule "crawler"]
>   >  >    submodule = util
>   >  >    submodule = imcrawter
>   >  >  [submodule "search"]
>   >  >    submodule = util
>   >  >    submodule = imsearch
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>  >  At this point I have few questions - Will Service have its own tree
>   >  besides its submodules?
>   Now, service itself is not a submodule, and service is just a logical
>   name for a group of moduels.
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If I am not mistaken I can do it now as well, by "git submodule add repo path". What would be the difference with this and your approach?

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>   >  For your above example of .gitmodules hierarchy if I issue "git
>   >  submodule init -m util", can you please explain what will be the
>   >  outcome, i.e. which modules will be initialized.
>   >
>   Only the util module will be initialized using the path and url in
>   submodule.util.{path,url}
>

I got that part as thats how git-submodules currently work; Actually what I wanted to know is as util is referenced to several logical submodules, will they be initialized as well? that means wherever util is referenced it will be initialized; is that what it means?

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