git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: Location-agnostic submodules

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 1, 2012, 17:57 UTC
Message-ID
<7v4nrzaioc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To
<732A8D2DB3374CD6BC12A5E7C4384313@PhilipOakley>
"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
Show 5 quoted lines
> Would an alternative be something like:
>    git submodule update <module> --from <remote>
>
> so that the user can state which of the current submodule's remotes
> should be used for fetching the desired update.

Are you assuming that the <remote> in the above example will be different per invocation for a single user? I would imagine not---it would be more like "the upstream has this URL in .gitmodules, but this other mirror is closer to my network environment", i.e.

	cd <module's directory> && git config remote.origin.url $there
no?
Previous: Philip OakleyNext: Philip Oakley
Message 6 of 8 in “Location-agnostic submodules”
  1. Pierre ThierryApr 27, 2012
  2. Phil HordApr 30, 2012
  3. Pierre ThierryApr 30, 2012
  4. Phil HordMay 1, 2012
  5. Philip OakleyMay 1, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2012
  7. Philip OakleyMay 1, 2012
  8. Heiko VoigtMay 2, 2012

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.