From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Verdoolaege Subject: Re: [PATCH] clarify need for init in git-submodules documentation Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:31:16 +0200 Message-ID: <20070817093116.GH1070MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> References: <200708161553.10991.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> <11872878021267-git-send-email-madduck@madduck.net> Reply-To: skimo@liacs.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "martin f. krafft" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 17 11:31:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ILyAy-0002Nk-El for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:31:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752257AbXHQJbV (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:31:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752130AbXHQJbV (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:31:21 -0400 Received: from psmtp08.wxs.nl ([195.121.247.22]:43298 "EHLO psmtp08.wxs.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751120AbXHQJbS (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:31:18 -0400 Received: from greensroom.kotnet.org (ip54515aaa.direct-adsl.nl [84.81.90.170]) by psmtp08.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.15 (built Nov 14 2006)) with SMTP id <0JMW00BE1VS5OD@psmtp08.wxs.nl> for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:31:17 +0200 (MEST) Received: (qmail 21483 invoked by uid 500); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:31:16 +0000 In-reply-to: <11872878021267-git-send-email-madduck@madduck.net> Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 08:10:02PM +0200, martin f. krafft wrote: > +The file .gitmodules serves default configuration data to users who cloned the > +repository. In order to work with submodules, these data need to be copied to > +$GIT_DIR/config with `git-submodule init`. Only the data in $GIT_DIR/config > +are used for `git-submodule update`. > + This is not true. The url (which is local information) is taken from .git/config, the name/path relation (which is shared information) is taken from .gitmodules. skimo PS, please don't prune (me from) the CC list when replying.