Re: What's in git.git (stable)

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Apr 27, 2007, 18:12 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704271110330.9964@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <200704271903.33263.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

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> I was actually surprised how little I'm finding I need submodule support 
> in the porcelain.  The only slight problem at the moment is with 
> git-checkout; switching from a branch with the supermodule to a branch 
> without it and back needs a bit of hoop jumping, but nothing too 
> painful.  All in all - success all over.

Heh, good to hear, but I suspect your habits may differ from other peoples...

I agree that "git checkout" needs to have that .gitmodules thing. It should actually be fairly straightforward, although there are subtle issues (ie right now we can *atomically* say "cannot check out, it's dirty" - what happens when you've already checked out five subprojects, and the sixth one is dirty?).

"git diff --subprojects" is likely also something people will want, and that should be _reasonably_ straigtforward.

"git merge" is the big one.

		Linus