Re: [PATCH 5/5] Add gitmodules(5)

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 12, 2007, 11:12 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580706120412o516ec39p71332d23823d7389@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <466E7D7E.7BAB2FD@eudaptics.com>

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

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> Lars Hjemli wrote:
> >
> > (readded the gitlist)
> >
> > On 6/12/07, Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Notice how kdelibs, kdebase and kdenetwork are both submodule and
> supermodule: They host the submodule admin and are hosted by KDE.
>

Exactly my point ;-)

> (If I missed the point, then it's because I didn't follow the
> discussion; I jumped in because I noticed the symlink proposal by
> chance.)

In this case, I would assume that e.g. kdelibs contain a submodule entry for path admin in its index, accompanied by a .gitmodules file saying that the path admin is mapped to this or that submodule. I would not expect the KDE 'supersuperproject' to know about admin at all, neither in its index nor .gitmodules.

-- larsh