From: Phil Hord Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2015 17:49:14 GMT Subject: Submodules as first class citizens (was Re: Moving to subtrees for plugins?) Message-ID: On Fri, Jun 5, 2015, 2:58 AM lucamilanesio wrote: >> >> Some devs of my Team complained that with submodules it is >> difficult to see the “full picture” of the difference >> between two SHA1 on the root project, as the submodules >> would just show as different SHA1s. When you Google >> “subtree submodules” you find other opinions as well: >> >> Just to mention a few: >> - >> https://codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/why-y >> our-company-shouldnt-use-git-submodules/ - >> http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/alternatives-to-git-su >> bmodule-git-subtree/ >> >> To be honest with you, I am absolutely fine with >> submodules as I can easily leave with the “extra pain” of >> diffing by hand recursively on submodules. But it is true >> that it may happen to either forget to do a git submodule >> update or otherwise forget you are in a detached branch >> and start committing “on the air” without a branch. ... > Ideally, as a "git clone --recursive" already exists, I would like to > see a "git diff --recursive" that goes through the submodules as well :-) > > Something possibly to propose to the Git mailing list? I've worked on git diff --recursive a bit myself, along with some simpler use cases (git ls-tree --recursive) as POCs. I think some of the needs there begin to have ui implications which could be high-friction. I really want to finish it someday, but I've been too busy lately at $job, and now my experiments are all rather stale. It would be a good discussion to have over at the git list (copied). Heiko and Jens have laid some new groundwork in this area and it may be a good time to revisit it. Or maybe they've even moved deeper than that; I have been distracted for well over a year now. Phil -- -- To unsubscribe, email repo-discuss+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com More info at http://groups.google.com/group/repo-discuss?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Repo and Gerrit Discussion" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to repo-discuss+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.