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From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>,
	Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Notes on Using Git with Subprojects
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:38:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060927113813.GC8056@admingilde.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609271152270.14200@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

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hoi :)

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:55:22AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > My current approach is like this:
> > 
> >  * create a .gitmodules file which lists all the directories
> >    which contain a submodule.
> >  * the .git/refs/heads directory of the submodule gets stored in
> >    .gitmodule/<modulename> inside the parent project
> 
> Taking this a step further, you could make subproject/.git/refs/heads a 
> symbolic link to .git/refs/heads/subproject, with the benefit that fsck 
> Just Works.

in fact it is done this way (more or less).

> Nevertheless, you have to take care of the fact that you need to commit 
> the state of the root project just after committing to any subproject.

why?

You can accumulate as many changes in different subprojects until you
get to a state that is worth committing in the parent project.
All these changes are then seen as one atomic change to the whole
project.

-- 
Martin Waitz

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-27 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-26 17:40 Notes on Using Git with Subprojects A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-26 20:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-09-26 22:01   ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-26 22:13     ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-09-26 22:45       ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-26 21:23 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-09-26 21:30   ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-26 22:33     ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-27  8:06       ` Martin Waitz
2006-09-27  9:55         ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-09-27 11:38           ` Martin Waitz [this message]
2006-09-27 12:01             ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-09-27 12:44               ` Sven Verdoolaege
2006-09-27 21:05                 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-28 15:02                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-09-28 20:16                   ` Jeff King
2006-09-27 12:46               ` Martin Waitz
2006-09-27 13:13                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-09-27 17:13           ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-27 23:14             ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-09-27 23:36               ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-27 23:55                 ` Rogan Dawes
2006-09-28  0:36                   ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-28  5:02                   ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-28  4:48                 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-27 16:58         ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-27 17:33           ` Jeff King
2006-09-28  3:47             ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-28  3:52               ` Jeff King
2006-09-28  3:58                 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-28  4:00                   ` Jeff King
2006-09-28  4:09                     ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-28  3:52               ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-28 15:39                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-09-28  7:37           ` Martin Waitz
2006-09-28 20:30             ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-29  7:04               ` Martin Waitz
2006-09-26 22:07   ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-10-01  5:19 ` A Large Angry SCM

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