From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gioele Barabucci Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] add update to branch support for "floating submodules" Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:16:22 +0000 Message-ID: <4EE369B6.7060602@svario.it> References: <20111109174027.GA28825@book.fritz.box> <7vr51htbsy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Heiko Voigt , git@vger.kernel.org To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Dec 10 15:20:24 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RZNmp-0002X2-N3 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:20:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751346Ab1LJOUL convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:20:11 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:53269 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751319Ab1LJOUK (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:20:10 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RZNma-0002QG-A7 for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:20:08 +0100 Received: from host86-175-212-128.wlms-broadband.com ([86.175.212.128]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:20:08 +0100 Received: from gioele by host86-175-212-128.wlms-broadband.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:20:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host86-175-212-128.wlms-broadband.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111110 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <7vr51htbsy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 09/11/2011 18:01, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> This is almost ready but I would like to know what users of the >> "floating submodule" think about this. > > I do like to hear from potential users as well, because the general > impression we got was that floating submodules is not a real need of > anybody, =46loating modules are something much sought after by those who use Git= =20 for non-development purposes, like those who have most of their $HOME=20 versioned with Git [1]. For example, part of what Joey Hess's `mr` tool= =20 [2] does is to simulate floating submodules for Git-versioned $HOMEs. In the context of versioned $HOMEs, or with backups in general, precise= =20 tracking of submodules updates is not that important. To quote [3]:=20 =C2=ABLast, change tracking is a bit more lenient with home directories= =2E I=20 may shuffle some stuff around, and I don't need to explain the changes=20 to anyone else.=C2=BB. In my case, I want my ~/Documents dir (that is i= n a=20 different repo from $HOME) to be always updated; I would prefer not to=20 deal with submodule updates, merges and detached HEADs. Bye, [1] http://vcs-home.branchable.com/ [2] http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mr/ [3] http://joshcarter.com/productivity/svn_hg_git_for_home_directory -- Gioele Barabucci