Re: Updating a submodule with a compatible version from another submodule version using the parent meta-repository

> Am 26.01.2011 20:48, schrieb Julian Ibarz:
>> Basically my feature would work like this:
>>
>> in B:
>> git submodule checkout some_version
>>
>> This will checkout B but also change A and C so that it is compatible
>> with some_version of B. Basically it will find the commit in A that
>> has the closest parent commit of some_version in B. When this is done
>> it just does git submodule udate on other submodules.
>
> Thanks, now I understand what you are trying to achieve.
>
>> I see in gitk that there is a feature that has a common implementation
>> for what I want to do:
>>
>> For every commits you can see Follows and Precedes which lists the
>> closest label before this release and after. What I need is the same
>> thing: instead of finding a closest labeled commit, I need to find a
>> closest commit referenced by A that precedes current HEAD of B. When
>> this is done I know which commit A has to be and then just have to
>> call git submodule update in A (update every other submodules except
>> for B).
>
> I am not aware of something like that in current Git, But I see that
> such functionality would be helpful. Care to share your implementation
> idea?