Re: Git Submodules ref setting

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date: May 12, 2022, 21:18 UTC
Message-ID: <c9097f6d-3bae-a5ee-96e5-1760bb51112c@iee.email>
In-Reply-To: <F20FCD5B-7788-4D4C-8402-2C4CF447B2F5@gmail.com>

On 12/05/2022 21:01, Вадим Цветков wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> I've started a small project which involves several git repositories, which depends on each other.
> For dealing with these repos I wanted to use git submodules as a simple package manager.
> However, it seems impossible to lock a submodule to particular ref, only to a branch.
> I would like to ask if this is deliberate design choice?

This may be a confusion about how some large projects use sub-modules and are now able to follow the developments within a sub-module branch.

The original sub-module mechanism is still available where the sub-module is locked at a specific commit object id's hash i.e. a specific 'library' version of that sub-module (in that context assumed to be rarely changing).

> And if it's not, may I contribute this feature?

-- Philip