Re: Updating a submodule with a compatible version from another submodule version using the parent meta-repository

[Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>]

Am 26.01.2011 20:48, schrieb Julian Ibarz:
> Basically my feature would work like this:
> 
> in B:
> git submodule checkout some_version
> 
> This will checkout B but also change A and C so that it is compatible
> with some_version of B. Basically it will find the commit in A that
> has the closest parent commit of some_version in B. When this is done
> it just does git submodule udate on other submodules.

Thanks, now I understand what you are trying to achieve.

> I see in gitk that there is a feature that has a common implementation
> for what I want to do:
> 
> For every commits you can see Follows and Precedes which lists the
> closest label before this release and after. What I need is the same
> thing: instead of finding a closest labeled commit, I need to find a
> closest commit referenced by A that precedes current HEAD of B. When
> this is done I know which commit A has to be and then just have to
> call git submodule update in A (update every other submodules except
> for B).

I am not aware of something like that in current Git, But I see that
such functionality would be helpful. Care to share your implementation
idea?