Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?)

[Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>]

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hoi :)

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:04:33PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
> The other thing which will be missed a lot (I miss it that much)
> is a subproject-recursive git-commit and git-status.

git-status should really point out if a subproject has any changes,
as it does for files.  Only that a submodule may have more types of
possible changes: has new commits which are not yet in the supermodule
index, has an dirty index of its own, dirty working directory.

But for commit it really does not make any sense.  The commit in the
submodule is totally independent to the commit in the supermodule.
You'd want the the submodule commit message to not refer to any
supermodule stuff (as you likely want to reuse the submodule in other
supermodules), while the supermodule commit is much more high-level and
only records that the submodule got changed.

When viewed from the supermodule, a submodule is just part of its tree,
just as normal files.  So a submodule commit is conceptually similiar to
changing a file, and you don't change files while you commit, also ;-).

-- 
Martin Waitz

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