From: "Imran M Yousuf" <imyousuf@gmail.com>
To: "Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] git-submodule: multi-level module definition
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:03:13 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bfdc29a0803050003j625b21a0m1f9af3f5554ef22@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320803042353u7e2e1789x514a2f81b7204277@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Imran M Yousuf <imyousuf@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Imran M Yousuf <imyousuf@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > .gitmodules with with multiple level of indirection
> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > [submodule "service"]
> > > > > submodule = crawler
> > > > > submodule = search
> > > > > [submodule "crawler"]
> > > > > submodule = util
> > > > > submodule = imcrawter
> > > > > [submodule "search"]
> > > > > submodule = util
> > > > > submodule = imsearch
> > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > > At this point I have few questions - Will Service have its own tree
> > > > besides its submodules?
> > > Now, service itself is not a submodule, and service is just a logical
> > > name for a group of moduels.
> > >
> > If I am not mistaken I can do it now as well, by "git submodule add
> > repo path". What would be the difference with this and your approach?
> No difference at this point. But using logical name can help add
> modules in batch such as "git submodule add -m service"
>
Ok I am working on something similar a recurse command for git
submodule; thats why I asked it. Hopefully will appear in mailing list
tomorrow :).
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > For your above example of .gitmodules hierarchy if I issue "git
> > > > submodule init -m util", can you please explain what will be the
> > > > outcome, i.e. which modules will be initialized.
> > > >
> > > Only the util module will be initialized using the path and url in
> > > submodule.util.{path,url}
> > >
> > I got that part as thats how git-submodules currently work; Actually
> > what I wanted to know is as util is referenced to several logical
> > submodules, will they be initialized as well? that means wherever util
> > is referenced it will be initialized; is that what it means?
> > > >
> Since the user designate only util module, we needn't automatically
> deduce the related modules for them. And as you have said, we can't
> deduce well since util may be referenced by several logical modules.
>
> > > > --
> > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ping Yin
> >
> > >
> > >
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> >
> >
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> >
> > Imran M Yousuf
> > Entrepreneur & Software Engineer
> > Smart IT Engineering
> > Dhaka, Bangladesh
> > Email: imran@smartitengineering.com
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> Ping Yin
>
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Imran M Yousuf
Entrepreneur & Software Engineer
Smart IT Engineering
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Email: imran@smartitengineering.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-05 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-04 16:04 [PATCH/RFC v2] git-submodule: multi-level module definition Ping Yin
2008-03-04 16:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-05 2:13 ` Ping Yin
[not found] ` <7bfdc29a0803041917j16112e80uc0b21707bdfd3fe@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <46dff0320803042315t2d89eb6fl325b4b2ef8ddbc44@mail.gmail.com>
2008-03-05 7:16 ` Ping Yin
2008-03-05 7:40 ` Imran M Yousuf
2008-03-05 7:53 ` Ping Yin
2008-03-05 8:03 ` Imran M Yousuf [this message]
2008-03-05 23:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-06 1:54 ` Ping Yin
2008-03-06 2:16 ` Imran M Yousuf
2008-03-06 2:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-06 5:18 ` Ping Yin
2008-03-06 3:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-06 5:48 ` Ping Yin
2008-03-07 1:43 ` Ping Yin
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