From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>,
Jeremy Morton <admin@game-point.net>,
"git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Reference a submodule branch instead of a commit
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 12:01:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqlgy4szuu.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqshscuilh.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:31:06 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>
>> I wonder if we could make that convenient for users by not tracking
>> the submodule,
>> i.e.
>> * we have the information in the .gitmodules file
>> * the path itself is in the .gitignore
>> * no tree entry
>>
>> Then you can update to the remote latest branch, without Git reporting
>> a dirty submodule locally, in fact it reports nothing for the submodule.
>>
>> It sounds like a hack, but maybe it's worth looking into that when
>> people want to see that workflow.
>
> It IS a hack.
>
> But if you do not touch .git<anything> file and instead say "clone
> this other project at that path yourself" in README, that would
> probably be sufficient.
eh,... hit send too early.
It IS a hack, but having this information in .git<something> would
mean that it can be forced to be in machine readable form, unlike a
mention in README. I do not know if the .gitmodules/.gitignore
combination is a sensible thing to use, but it does smell like a
potentially useful hack.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-04 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-03 18:14 Reference a submodule branch instead of a commit Jeremy Morton
2016-10-03 19:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-04 11:36 ` Heiko Voigt
2016-10-04 17:07 ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-04 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-04 19:01 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-10-05 14:14 ` Heiko Voigt
2016-10-05 16:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-05 18:21 ` Heiko Voigt
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