Re: [RFC] Fourth round of support for cloning submodules

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: May 24, 2007, 18:09 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705241105210.26602@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070524175519.GU942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:

> 
> If you allow an override, then I don't see how having the initial
> information in the tree is any better.
> When new information gets in from the tree, you're going to ignore it anyway.

Well, duh. "Paging Mr Ovious".

IF you have local overrides they get ignored.

Which is what _should_ happen, of course.

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> What if someone is working on his own branch of the superproject
> that needs some changes in his own subproject?
> He needs to modify .gitmodules, but when the changes go upstream,
> this .gitmodules changes get merged as well.
> Now imagine several developers doing this.
> You end up continually having to modify .gitmodules.

Ehh. What drugs are you on?

That's the whole point of having local overrides. You use them for local branches. You do _not_ use .gitmodules for those.

So ".gitmodules" is the default for people who don't do anything special. Only people who change the _default_ would ever change that.

I really don't understand or see your objections at all. You are making totally idiotic arguments BASED ON DOING OBVIOUSLY STUPID THINGS. That's not an argument.

		Linus