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

> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Imran M Yousuf <imyousuf@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  > 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:
>  >  >
>  >  >  >  >  .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
>  >  >
>  >  >   >
>  >  >
>  >  >  >  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.
>  >  >
>  >  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?
>  No difference at this point. But using logical name can help add
>  modules in batch such as "git submodule add -m service"
>

> >
>  > >
>  >  >   >
>  >  >   >  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?
>  >  >   >
>  Since the user designate only util module, we needn't automatically
>  deduce the related modules for them. And as you have said, we can't
>  deduce well since util may be referenced by several logical modules.
>
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>  > Imran M Yousuf
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