Re: Submodules

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 8, 2007, 21:12 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708082211100.21857@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <200708082147.57822.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

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> On Wednesday 2007, August 08, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > Also, I realised that git is not really happy unless you install
> > alternates pointing to the object stores of the submodules.  Shouldn't we
> > make this my default (for example in "init")?
> 
> I use submodules on a daily basis and haven't experienced this at all.  
> Would you mind saying a little more about this problem?

Not at all!

This is what I did. I cloned msysgit.git, which contains one submodule. To initialise that, I did "git submodule init" and "git submodule update". It went and cloned the submodule. Fine.

Then I committed in the submodule, a well-needed fix.

If I now go to the superproject again, and say "git submodule status", it will not find the newest commit, and complain that it cannot access that object.

Ciao, Dscho