Re: Git submodule enhancements

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 24, 2008, 09:25 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580809240225ld59fe28g10ecd09d1962ef3c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580809240213v5198d2abh489915dc1133c75@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:00 AM, P. Christeas <p_christ@hol.gr> wrote:
> +                       # Cloned mode: we try to figure out the submodule
> +                       # path in the remote origin.
> +                       # FIXME: we do use "../" because the remote is the .git/
> +                       url=$(resolve_relative_url "../$path/.git")
> +               fi
> +
>                git config submodule."$name".url "$url" ||
>                die "Failed to register url for submodule path '$path'"
> --
> 1.6.0.1
>
>
> It looks like --cloned requires the downstream to know which
> submodules are available from the same remote as the supermodule (and
> with the same path as registered in the supermodule)

Hmm, after reading through this once more I guess you're trying to clone a non-bare repository, possibly also lacking a .gitmodules file (hence the --force)?

-- larsh