From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:01:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHv2] git submodule split
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902150000140.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <431341160902140611x69a915e6lc3ee482f1ca66dc8@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Eric Kidd wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > As I said to Eric already, I would like this to be part of git-submodule
> > proper, as I expect a lot of people needing it.
> 
> I'm happy to do whatever people want. :-) Even if this goes into
> contrib/, I want to include everything a regular git command would
> have: unit tests, a man page, portable sh code, etc.

That is the problem.  IIRC we do not have a testing framework in contrib/.  
Indeed, we would not catch breakages in contrib/ at all.

Ciao,
Dscho