From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [PATCH] User Manual: add a chapter for submodules Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:30:14 -0400 Message-ID: <20070919203014.GI5946@fieldses.org> References: <20070919174250.GC16235@genesis.frugalware.org> <7vbqbyphil.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Miklos Vajna , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 19 22:30:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IY6Bt-0004Iq-H9 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:30:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752467AbXISUa0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:30:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751924AbXISUa0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:30:26 -0400 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:47260 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752555AbXISUaZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:30:25 -0400 Received: from bfields by fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IY6Ba-0005mG-Da; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:30:14 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vbqbyphil.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:44:18PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Also "submodule" is used consistently in the rest of the > document but this sentence talks about "subproject". I never liked the terms "submodule" or "subproject" much--it seems to focus attention in the wrong place. it's the "superproject" that's the new and interesting thing here, while the submodules themselves are all just standard git projects, right? But I guess that's kind of a silly complaint, and late besides. --b.