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Re: [PATCH] status&commit: Teach them to show commits of modified submodules.

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 12, 2007, 09:51 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0711120950370.4362@racer.site>
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Hi,
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano schrieb:
>
> > I am not saying that it is wrong to use submodule to track such groups 
> > of source trees whose versions are very closely tied together.  At 
> > least not yet.
> 
> In KDE, the supermodule will actually just be a container that binds the 
> submodules together. The essential development will happen in the 
> submodules, and the supermodule will receive a commit quite frequently. 
> In this case, there will often be only a few or a few dozen commits 
> listed, and I anticipate that the integrator who is going to make the 
> commit (to the supermodule) will probably like the summary. So I'm all 
> for it.

I like it, too. And we can make the number of shown commits configurable, just like for the merge summary. But I'd rather see the code in wt-status.c than in git-submodule.sh.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 10 of 16 in “status&commit: Teach them to show commits of modified submodules.”
  1. status&commit: Teach them to show commits of modified submodules.Ping Yin, Nov 10, 2007
  2. Sven VerdoolaegeNov 10, 2007
  3. Sven VerdoolaegeNov 10, 2007
  4. Yin PingNov 11, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 10, 2007
  6. Yin PingNov 11, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 11, 2007
  8. Ping YinNov 12, 2007
  9. Johannes SixtNov 12, 2007
  10. Johannes SchindelinNov 12, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 12, 2007
  12. Johan HerlandNov 12, 2007
  13. Johannes SixtNov 12, 2007
  14. Lars HjemliNov 11, 2007
  15. Yin PingNov 11, 2007
  16. Lars HjemliNov 11, 2007

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