From: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Mark Levedahl" <mlevedahl@gmail.com>,
"Max Kirillov" <max@max630.net>,
"Jens Lehmann" <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>,
"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] git-checkout.txt: a note about multiple checkout support for submodules
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 16:41:27 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1420278087-14613-4-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1420278087-14613-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>
The goal seems to be using multiple checkouts to reduce disk space.
But we have not reached an agreement how things should be. There are a
couple options.
- You may want to keep $SUB repos elsewhere (perhaps in a central
place) outside $SUPER. This is also true for nested submodules
where a superproject may be a submodule of another superproject.
- You may want to keep all $SUB repos in $SUPER/modules (or some
other place in $SUPER)
- We could even push it further and merge all $SUB repos into $SUPER
instead of storing them separately. But that would at least require
ref namespace enabled.
On top of that, git-submodule.sh expects $GIT_DIR/config to be
per-worktree, at least for the submodule.* part. Here I think we have
two options, either update config.c to also read
$GIT_DIR/config.worktree (which is per worktree) in addition to
$GIT_DIR/config (shared) and store worktree-specific vars in the new
place, or update git-submodule.sh to read/write submodule.* directly
from $GIT_DIR/config.submodule (per worktree).
These take time to address properly. Meanwhile, make a note to the
user that they should not use multiple worktrees in submodule context.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 52eaa48..72def5b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -463,6 +463,9 @@ to `/path/main/.git/worktrees/test-next` then a file named
`test-next` entry from being pruned. See
linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] for details.
+Multiple checkout support for submodules is incomplete. It is NOT
+recommended to make multiple checkouts of a superproject.
+
EXAMPLES
--------
--
2.2.0.84.ge9c7a8a
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-03 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-03 9:41 [PATCH 0/3] nd/multiple-work-trees updates Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2015-01-03 9:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] checkout: pass whole struct to parse_branchname_arg instead of individual flags Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2015-01-03 9:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] checkout: add --ignore-other-wortrees Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2015-01-05 3:50 ` Mark Levedahl
2015-01-03 9:41 ` Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy [this message]
2015-01-05 3:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] git-checkout.txt: a note about multiple checkout support for submodules Mark Levedahl
2015-01-06 21:30 ` Max Kirillov
2015-02-12 22:57 ` [PATCH 0/3] nd/multiple-work-trees updates Junio C Hamano
2015-02-12 23:51 ` Jens Lehmann
2015-02-13 3:17 ` Mark Levedahl
2015-02-13 9:10 ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2015-02-13 10:14 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-03-18 8:04 ` Ephrim Khong
2015-03-18 8:23 ` Duy Nguyen
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