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

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 12, 2007, 12:37 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580706120537y75d7a58esd59bf20b6c4dec6f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200706121423.02127.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

On 6/12/07, Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On Tuesday 12 June 2007, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> > I
> > would not expect the KDE 'supersuperproject' to know about admin at
> > all, neither in its index nor .gitmodules.
>
> The admin submodule contains KDE specific things. So of course it
> also would be a submodule in the grand whole KDE superduper module.

Aha! But as you say:

> But that does not really matter.

Exactly.

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>
> However, to not have a lot of copies of the admin submodule
> in
>
>  .git/submodule/admin
>  .git/submodule/kdelibs/.git/submodule/admin
>  .git/submodule/kdebase/.git/submodule/admin
>  .git/submodule/kdenetwork/.git/submodule/admin
>
> the just suggested submodule.<name>.repopath to specify a repository
> outside of .git/submodule to be shared by kdelibs,kdebase,... would
> be fine.

Yes, repopath would work out nice for KDE (which btw seems to be a great test-case for git-submodule)

-- larsh