[PATCH 5/5] Add gitmodules(5)

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 12, 2007, 10:54 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580706120354w69bddb7o8edce484be714087@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580706120352y24e53a10sf339147b22f1286e@mail.gmail.com>

(readded the gitlist)

On 6/12/07, Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com> wrote:

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> Lars Hjemli wrote:
> > Multiple checkout paths for a single submodule will bring havoc on
> > this plan, so I need to ask: what is the use-case for multiple
> > checkout paths?
>
> A use-case is the admin directory in the KDE repository. It has:
>
> KDE (superproject)
>  +- kdelibs (subproject)
>  |   +- admin (subproject)
>  |   +- subdir1
>  |   +- ...
>  +- kdebase (subproject)
>  |   +- admin (subproject)
>  |   +- subdir2
>  |   +- ...
>  +- kdenetwork (subproject)
>  |   +- admin (subproject)
>  |   +- subdir3
>  |   +- ...
>  ...

But in this case, 'admin' isn't a submodule/subproject contained by KDE, right? It's contained in three different submodules/subprojects: kdelibs, kdebase and kdenetwork.

-- larsh