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From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
To: git discussion list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git submodule init and redundant data in .gitmodules/.git/config
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:38:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070815163822.GC1070MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070815162005.GA18463@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 06:20:05PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> But looking at the two stanzas, it strikes me that the remote url of
> the submodule is duplicated and detached, creating redundant data
> which may become desynchronised.
> 
> Why is this?
> 
> What is the reason for git-submodule init and moving the data to
> .git/config?

The (most appropriate) URL from which to get updates of a submodule
may be different for different people and therefore has to be stored
in .git/config.  It was then decided that the default value
for this URL should be stored in .gitmodules.  git submodule init
simply initializes the URL using this default value.  You are free
to not call git submodule init and set a (more) appropriate URL manually.

skimo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-15 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-15 16:20 git submodule init and redundant data in .gitmodules/.git/config martin f krafft
2007-08-15 16:38 ` Sven Verdoolaege [this message]
2007-08-15 22:29   ` using .gitmodule as default (was: git submodule init and redundant data in .gitmodules/.git/config) martin f krafft
2007-08-16 13:53     ` Josef Weidendorfer
2007-08-16 14:21       ` martin f krafft
2007-08-16 16:39         ` Josef Weidendorfer
2007-08-16 18:10       ` [PATCH] clarify need for init in git-submodules documentation martin f. krafft
2007-08-17  9:31         ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-17 10:08           ` martin f krafft
2007-08-17 10:36             ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-20  7:09               ` [PATCH] Clarify role of init command " martin f. krafft
2007-08-20  7:54                 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-21 18:02                   ` martin f krafft
2007-08-21 20:25                     ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-21 21:03                       ` martin f krafft
2007-08-22  8:30                         ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-22 13:48                           ` martin f krafft
2007-08-20 21:14                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-20  9:29           ` Not setting M-F-T, keeping people on Cc (was: [PATCH] clarify need for init in git-submodules documentation) martin f krafft
2007-08-17  7:14     ` using .gitmodule as default (was: git submodule init and redundant data in .gitmodules/.git/config) Lars Hjemli

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