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From: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/4] change submodule push test to use proper repository setup
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:17:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171012161729.GA169880@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171011151021.o6f4l7kcd3azdmiu@x>

On 10/11, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:39:21AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 6:03 AM, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> wrote:
> > > but in the long run my goal
> > > for submodules is and always was: Make them behave as close to files as
> > > possible. And why should a 'git add submodule' not magically do
> > > everything it can to make submodules just work? I can look into a patch
> > > for that if people agree here...
> > 
> > I'd love to see this implemented. I cc'd Josh (the author of git-series), who
> > may disagree with this, or has some good input how to go forward without
> > breaking git-series.
> 
> git-series doesn't use the git-submodule command at all, nor does it
> construct series trees using git-add or any other git command-line tool;
> it constructs gitlinks directly. Most of the time, it doesn't even make
> sense to `git checkout` a series branch. Modifying commands like git-add
> and similar to automatically manage .gitmodules won't cause any issue at
> all, as long as git itself doesn't start rejecting or complaining about
> repositories that have gitlinks without a .gitmodules file.

That's good to know!  And from what I remember, with the commands we've
begun teaching to understand submodules we have been requiring a
.gitmodules entry for a submodule in order to do the recursion, and a
gitlink without a .gitmodules entry would simply be ignored or skipped.

-- 
Brandon Williams

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-12 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-06 22:25 [RFC PATCH v3 0/4] implement fetching of moved submodules Heiko Voigt
2017-10-06 22:30 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] fetch: add test to make sure we stay backwards compatible Heiko Voigt
2017-10-06 22:32 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] change submodule push test to use proper repository setup Heiko Voigt
2017-10-09 18:20   ` Stefan Beller
2017-10-10 13:03     ` Heiko Voigt
2017-10-10 18:39       ` Stefan Beller
2017-10-10 23:31         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-10 23:41           ` Stefan Beller
2017-10-11  0:19           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-11 14:56           ` Heiko Voigt
2017-10-12  0:26             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-11 14:52         ` Heiko Voigt
2017-10-11 15:10         ` Josh Triplett
2017-10-12 16:17           ` Brandon Williams [this message]
2017-10-06 22:34 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/4] implement fetching of moved submodules Heiko Voigt
2017-10-06 22:35 ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/4] submodule: simplify decision tree whether to or not to fetch Heiko Voigt
2017-10-06 22:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/4] implement fetching of moved submodules Stefan Beller
2017-10-07  1:24 ` Junio C Hamano

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