Re: Submodules

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 8, 2007, 00:07 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708080104170.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <a1bbc6950708071631w5d232e92gd0fa27158b27b5c3@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:

> * how come sumbodules are not initialized when I do a clone of super.
> I expect to be able to build super after I clone it. Is there a new
> (undocumented) flag to clone?

There might be. But one of the reasons submodules are not just tree objects is that you should be able _not_ to check out all of them (think KDE).

> * why submodules should be listed in 2 places: in .submodules and in
> super/.git/config?

Well, URLs can change. Therefore, .submodules has what is considered the current URL, but you can change it yourself in .git/config. (At least that is how I understood it.)

Ciao, Dscho