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Re: [PATCH/RFC 3/7] git-submodule: Fall back on .gitmodules if info not found in $GIT_DIR/config

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Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 11, 2008, 23:24 UTC
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Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:
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> Originally, the submodule workflow enforces 'git init' in the beginning
> which copies submodule config info from .gitmodules to $GIT_DIR/config.
> Then all subcommands except 'init' and 'add' fetch submodule info from
> $GIT_DIR/config and .gitmodules can be discarded.
>
> However, there may be inconsistence between .git/config and .gitmodules
> when always using 'git init' at first. If upstream .gitmodules changes,
> it is not easy to sync the changes to $GIT_DIR/config.

Maybe you missed an earlier thread with Roman Shaposhnik where this issue was discussed and a solution more in line with the original intent of the design of the submodule system was mentioned (actually I should not take credit for that suggestion as it was not mine but somebody else mentioned it back when git-submodule command was initially being designed. I only recalled there was that one issue in the old discussion but there might have been others)?

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Message 13 of 20 in “submodule: fallback to .gitmodules and multiple level module definition”
  1. submodule: fallback to .gitmodules and multiple level module definitionPing Yin, Apr 10, 2008
  2. 1/7 git-submodule: Extract functions module_info and module_urlPing Yin, Apr 10, 2008
  3. 1/3 git-submodule summary: --for-status optionPing Yin, Apr 10, 2008
  4. 2/3 builtin-status: submodule summary supportPing Yin, Apr 10, 2008
  5. 2/7 git-submodule: Extract absolute_url & move absolute url logic to module_clonePing Yin, Apr 10, 2008
  6. 3/3 buitin-status: Add tests for submodule summaryPing Yin, Apr 10, 2008
  7. 3/7 git-submodule: Fall back on .gitmodules if info not found in $GIT_DIR/configPing Yin, Apr 10, 2008
  8. 4/7 git-submodule: Extract module_add from cmd_addPing Yin, Apr 10, 2008
  9. 5/7 git-submodule: multi-level module definitionPing Yin, Apr 10, 2008
  10. 6/7 git-submodule: Don't die when command fails for one submodulePing Yin, Apr 10, 2008
  11. 7/7 git-submodule: "update --force" to enforce cloning non-submodulePing Yin, Apr 10, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2008
  14. Ping YinApr 12, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2008
  16. Ping YinApr 12, 2008
  17. Ping YinApr 10, 2008
  18. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2008
  19. Ping YinApr 12, 2008
  20. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2008

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