# submodule usage with links

2 messages from 2008-03-17 to 2008-03-17. Participants: Nigel Magnay.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12723

## Nigel Magnay, 2008-03-17 13:52

Subject: submodule usage with links
Message-ID: <320075ff0803170652i75041745v7825915f153fa577@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/320075ff0803170652i75041745v7825915f153fa577%40mail.gmail.com

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Hi there

We use a lot of repo links that I'd like to use submodule support for.

Instead of doing
git submodule add ~/module/a
or even
git submodule add git://myhost/module/a

I'd like to share a, and do something like

<<add value to .gitmodules>>
ln -s a ../modules/a
?? do something to add 'A' to the index as a 'subproject commit'
rather than a symlink ??

I'm stuck on the last bit - or is this not going to work?

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## Nigel Magnay, 2008-03-17 15:19

Subject: Re: submodule usage with links
Message-ID: <320075ff0803170819p711e512cl30127a44f0543138@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/320075ff0803170819p711e512cl30127a44f0543138%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <320075ff0803170652i75041745v7825915f153fa577@mail.gmail.com>

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Ok - turns out I was being optimistic, git understands symlinks and
notices a typechange.

Is there any support for doing this kind of thing? I have lots of
superprojects that all use the same
module - I'd like to not have to have them duplicated many times over
(It's ok that I'll have to reset the module
repository when changing between superproject)..


On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Nigel Magnay <nigel.magnay@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there
>
>  We use a lot of repo links that I'd like to use submodule support for.
>
>  Instead of doing
>  git submodule add ~/module/a
>  or even
>  git submodule add git://myhost/module/a
>
>  I'd like to share a, and do something like
>
>  <<add value to .gitmodules>>
>  ln -s a ../modules/a
>  ?? do something to add 'A' to the index as a 'subproject commit'
>  rather than a symlink ??
>
>  I'm stuck on the last bit - or is this not going to work?
>

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