From: "Jānis Rukšāns" <janis.ruksans@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Submodule, subtree, or something else?
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 20:53:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1440438795.32140.98.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kY+HLzd4esdy+i82Eh5Vhc1NEDDfinD2iiBMvV41GSCiw@mail.gmail.com>
On P , 2015-08-24 at 09:51 -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
> IIUC, the second command will lookup the submodules in $(pwd), but if
> they are not there they are skipped, so all of the existing submodules
> are cloned.
> Why do you need more submodules in the tmp clone than in
> $(pwd)/projectA would be my next question. But I see your point now.
The $(pwd) was just an example to illustrate my point. The actual use
case is that I would be hacking on something at work, notice that it is
already late and I have to catch the last bus home, yet I don't want to
postpone whatever I was working on until the next day. So I would do
git commit -a -m "[WIP] Stuff, finish at home" to save my work so far,
go home, and clone / fetch it over ssh.
Another important factor is that a lot of our code can be meaningfully
tested only on the actual hardware, and is built in a VM. Quite often
getting things right involve many iterations of hack hack hack, git
commit --amend, fetch && reset --hard in the VM, build, test, repeat.
Being able to clone / fetch directly from the copy I am working on makes
it a lot easier.
As I wrote in the other e-mail, I managed to achieve the desired result
by using ./<submodule> (without .git suffix) as the submodule URL, and
creating a file named <submodule> in the bare repo with
'gitdir: ../<submodule.git>' as it's contents, but I'm not sure whether
it is a good idea or not.
Jānis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-24 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-21 22:47 Submodule, subtree, or something else? Jānis Rukšāns
2015-08-22 0:07 ` Stefan Beller
2015-08-23 14:11 ` Jānis Rukšāns
2015-08-24 16:51 ` Stefan Beller
2015-08-24 17:53 ` Jānis Rukšāns [this message]
[not found] ` <CAK6hiNiBD+DUdNq0c2DY9LWg2PCgE56SpbBip8BNNmHTsEttuQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-08-24 17:12 ` Jānis Rukšāns
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