Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Nov 26, 2006, 03:39 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611251936590.3483@woody.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061125234908.GC24909@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net>

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Yann Dirson wrote:

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> Also, I'd rather expect "git-commit -a" outside of any submodule to
> commit everything in the supermodule, triggering submodule commits as an
> intermediate step when needed - just like "git-commit -a" does not
> require to manually specify subdirectories to inclue in the commit.  I'd
> rather expect a special flag to exclude submodules from a commit.

So, how do you do commit messages? It generally doesn't make sense to share the same commit message for submodules - the sub-commits generally do different things.

I'd actually suggest that "git commit -a" with non-clean submodules error out for that reason, with something like

	submodule 'src/xyzzy' is not up-to-date, please commit changes to 
	that first.

exactly because you really generally should consider the submodule commits to be a separate phase.