From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>,
Nigel Magnay <nigel.magnay@gmail.com>,
Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git submodules
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:26:33 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r69dtzm9.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080728220308.GF10409@artemis.madism.org>
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 09:40:22PM +0000, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> > Further, if you don't have a separate .git directory for each
> > submodule, you can't *switch* branches on the submodule independently
> > of the supermodule in any obvious way.
>
> Yes you can, in what I propose you have a dummy .git in each submodule,
> with probably an index, a HEAD and a config file (maybe some other
> things along) to allow that especially.
What you are (re)inventing here is something called gitlink (.git which
is a file, or .gitlink file); not to be confused with 'sumbodule'/'commit'
entry in a tree which is sometimes called gitlink. Alternate idea was
'unionfs' like "shadowing" .git, with 'core.gitdir' in .git/config
(which would contain .git/HEAD and .git/index, and all missing files
and config would be taken from `core.gitdir').
There was even some preliminary implementation IIRC, but AFAIR it
was abandoned because of no "real usage".
See
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.msysgit/1868
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/72449
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/72457
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/72296
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-28 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-28 16:20 git submodules Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-28 16:23 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-28 20:23 ` Nigel Magnay
2008-07-28 20:55 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-28 20:59 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-28 21:40 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-28 22:03 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-28 22:26 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-07-28 22:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-17 20:13 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-08-17 22:54 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-08-17 23:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-18 0:46 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-28 22:32 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-28 23:12 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-29 5:51 ` Benjamin Collins
2008-07-29 6:04 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-07-29 8:18 ` Nigel Magnay
2008-07-29 8:45 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-29 8:21 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-29 8:37 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-29 8:51 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-29 12:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-29 13:07 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-29 13:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-29 13:19 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-29 13:31 ` Nigel Magnay
2008-07-29 14:49 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-29 14:53 ` Junio C Hamano
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2009-10-17 17:15 Steven Noonan
2009-10-17 17:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-10-17 22:30 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-10-21 19:38 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-04-28 19:50 Victor Bogado da Silva Lins
2008-04-28 21:01 ` Miklos Vajna
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2008-02-07 21:24 ` GIT submodules Rene Herman
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