From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:12:49 GMT Subject: Re: What's in git.git (stable) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200704271903.33263.andyparkins@gmail.com> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Andy Parkins wrote: > > 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