From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:56:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Let .git/config specify the url for submodules
Message-ID: <8c5c35580706010856s390b1157p3ea0d28cb2074cae@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070601145104.GY955MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>

On 6/1/07, Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 04:45:06PM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> > On 6/1/07, Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> wrote:
> > >On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 11:25:42AM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> > >> [path '$path']
> > >>  submodule=modulename
> > >>  url=/some/url
> > >
> > >Wouldn't it make more sense to have
> > >
> > >[path '$path']
> > >        submodule=modulename
> > >
> > >and
> > >
> > >[submodule '$modulename']
> > >        url=/some/url
> > >
> > >in case the same module appears in more than one path?
> >
> > Yes, that would be a properly normalized model.
> >
> > Hmm.... Maybe we could allow both variations, with your suggestion
> > overriding mine if both are present? (I think there would be many
> > cases where the extra level of [submodule...] wouldn't be needed.
>
> Hmm.... I was thinking that the extra "path" level could be optional,
> i.e., if there is no path.$path.submodule, then the name of the
> submodule would simply be $path.

Yeah, that should also work out. Time for a quick poll?

-- 
larsh