From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] add update to branch support for "floating submodules" Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:01:33 -0800 Message-ID: <7vr51htbsy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20111109174027.GA28825@book.fritz.box> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Heiko Voigt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 09 19:01:44 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 1ROCSz-0004HW-DN for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:01:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752871Ab1KISBh (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2011 13:01:37 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:60916 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751243Ab1KISBg (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2011 13:01:36 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 325176A9B; Wed, 9 Nov 2011 13:01:35 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=t7P3YnFliIXOqLTCtMEnOlF0ZqY=; b=U0z1e1 4xQZ9xYWUi211j85mFfcCd/Ard5h84Ey5R+txwloeYBzzU9utkBeXmv3crofGnCs qHBib/q/J/xuRpXP3SY7cpXXB2MTon+nbP47D2fQ+xetEbmYMHYtUQglo0OrLQgT V9N7CXDdjDg5ljwx5sb0PApkLHR5r08GEy2S4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=dU5oddzvCA18ovY2K/yf9au1r5hbRAo0 liD6JCzWDAtYvup+T54Nkv2vd6nWEg4rnhZdGUZSkxDZU7QH/pzeUbRwr/k4n1QW QbzkWyxV39O9ZeUMYwRoK1DWjxz7lNsObfUgM/PA5Mxka1YnrFbKk2kfzuK3tua/ ox9RnNmZwvM= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B7A6A9A; Wed, 9 Nov 2011 13:01:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B65C36A99; Wed, 9 Nov 2011 13:01:34 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20111109174027.GA28825@book.fritz.box> (Heiko Voigt's message of "Wed, 9 Nov 2011 18:40:27 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: DCA39D7A-0AFC-11E1-89BD-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Heiko Voigt writes: > This is almost ready but I would like to know what users of the > "floating submodule" think about this. Thanks for working on 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, but it is merely an inertia of people who (perhaps mistakenly) thought svn externals that are not anchored to a particular revision is a feature when it is just a limitation in reality. During the GitTogether'11 we learned that Android that uses floating model does not really have to.