Re: [PATCH] Let .git/config specify the url for submodules

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 2, 2007, 09:53 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580706020253j4e24785cyce712460d8d1a1b8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vejkuyaxq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 6/2/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> "Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > But why would we want to design .gitmodules in a way that makes it
> > hard to do the mapping from path to url?
>
> Perhaps because "path" is not the "identity" of the subproject, but
> the (logical) subproject name is?
>
>

Ok.

So I'll make 'git-submodule' expect the .gitmodules layout to be like this:

[submodule 'xyz']
  url=git://example.com/xyz.git
  path=xyz1
  path=xyz2

And submodule.$name.path should be optional: if no submodule.*.path entry exists for a given $path, submodule $name == $path.

Ok?

-- larsh