Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] l10n: Add git-add.txt to localized man pages

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 22, 2017, 18:56 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq1stpkun7.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZBq+dL7hEj108DPU5KbVeJX2nYEw88jS0Eq78GxzCabA@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> I wonder if we could have partial functionality for these "clone and checkout"
> fake submodules, by having e.g. the .gitmodules file telling you the URL
> and path, but no recorded gitlink in the tree.

You can have such a comment in any file including .gitmodules but would that even be a feature?

A comment in the INSTALL file was what I had in mind, at least while we are getting more familiar with the proposed two project structure and before we commit to use the submodule mechanism to bind them together.

> So we'd want to be able to say:
>   "get a tarball including all submodules except the superproject"
>   (This would produce the "optional language pack tarball")

You do not need that. Just go to the gitman-l10n project and grab a tarball out of it.

>   "get a tarball including the superproject and only one submodule"
>   (This would produce the "I can distribute this in locally as everyone
>   speaks the same language in the organisation" tarball)

We don't need that, either, even though some other project would. "git archive --recurse-submodules" with properly implemented pathspec support will solve that.