Re: Partial checkouts / submodules

From: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Date: Nov 20, 2007, 18:55 UTC
Message-ID: <87ir3wzqzj.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
In-Reply-To: <1AD9B065-647B-4672-B6B0-8D4447960913@midwinter.com>

Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> writes:

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> On Nov 20, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>> This has theoretical problems: it's going to be practically
>> impossible, in
>> most cases, to write a commit message that describes changes in three
>> submodules (which are sometimes used in the context of a different
>> supermodule) as well as the supermodule.
>
> I got the impression from his email that there *are* no other
> supermodules. The submodules are submodules purely to reduce the
> amount of data people have to transfer around, not because they're
> logically distinct from the parent.

I got the same impression, and then I wonder if the next logical thing the OP will need is, say, support for content moves between submodules. Somehow I doubt git will ever support that.

-- 
Sergei.