From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-submodule - allow a relative path as the subproject url
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:42:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vy7ev5jrb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1190600382-1648-1-git-send-email-mdl123@verizon.net> (Mark Levedahl's message of "Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:19:42 -0400")
Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net> writes:
> This allows a subproject's location to be specified and stored as relative
> to the parent project's location (e.g., ./foo, or ../foo). This url is
> stored in .gitmodules as given. It is resolved into an absolute url by
> appending it to the parent project's url when the information is written
> to .git/config (i.e., during submodule add for the originator, and
> submodule init for a downstream recipient). This allows cloning of the
> project to work "as expected" if the project is hosted on a different
> server than when the subprojects were added.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
I like the idea here. If you maintain and serve a set related
projects you need to give the users a single URL (per where the
user is and how to reach the server).
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
> index 2c48936..d421677 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
> @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ add::
> repository is cloned at the specified path, added to the
> changeset and registered in .gitmodules. If no path is
> specified, the path is deduced from the repository specification.
> + If the repository url begins with ./ or ../, it is stored as
> + given but resolved as a relative path from the main project's
> + url when cloning.
Tabs vs spaces? Will fix up while applying.
Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-25 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-22 20:40 [PATCH] git-submodule - allow a relative path as the subproject url Mark Levedahl
2007-09-24 0:21 ` Michael Smith
2007-09-24 2:27 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-09-24 2:19 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-09-25 6:42 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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