From: Lars Hjemli Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:51:59 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add gitmodules(5) Message-ID: <8c5c35580706100551y52639ce3m7a2be93a3289be1c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070610124052.GE955MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> On 6/10/07, Sven Verdoolaege wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 02:30:58PM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote: > > On 6/10/07, Sven Verdoolaege wrote: > > >On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:58:29AM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote: > > >> >For .path a "Defaults to name of submodule" probably wouldn't hurt. > > >> > > >> True. But there might be some issues with this rule, so I'll leave it > > >> as is for now. > > > > > >And what might those issues be? > > > > There's been some discussion about allowing a default value for path, see > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/49620 > > Euhm... this just points back to this thread... I know ;-) > or are you referring to Junio's misinterpretation of the patch 1/3 > commit message? Well, yes, I _think_ it's a misinterpretation but there is always the possibility of me being exceptionally slow and not getting his point. > > > >It doesn't have the extensions proposed by Linus, but it seems > > >to be forward compatible with them. > > > > I'm trying to take baby-steps with the submodule support, so the > > module/submodule extension Linus talked about would possibly come at a > > later stage. > > > > Hmm, maybe I should just rename [module] to [submodule] right now? > > I don't see the need, but if you _really_ can't resist then please do it > sooner rather than later. Ok -- larsh