From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:17:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Why do git submodules require manual checkouts and commits?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805161055540.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <2729632a0805152116o3c998324xb401674207dd2e1e@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 15 May 2008, skillzero@gmail.com wrote:

> Why do git submodules require manually committing the submodule itself
> to each super repository after something in the submodule repository
> changes?

Submodules are special.

You cannot recreate the exact state from a commit in the superproject, for 
one, and often not even from the commit itself, since the submodule can 
contain more than just the tracked files.

Also, no submodule _has_ to be checked out.  If you are working inside a 
superproject, chances are that you are uninterested in most of the 
submodules.

So no, there is nothing to change here, please move along.

Ciao,
Dscho