From: Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] Documentation/git-submodule.txt: Add Description section
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:41:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080717104124.GE4379@zakalwe.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080716184248.6524.38463.stgit@localhost>
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:44:12PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> I have adjusted the description a bit; however, I believe mentioning
> remotes in
> the description would only raise the danger of confusion - I emphasized the
> level of separation, though.
I think not doing a comparison actually creates confusion. My immediate
thought about submodules was "how does this differ from remotes? why do
submodules exist rather than just remotes?"
--
Heikki Orsila
heikki.orsila@iki.fi
http://www.iki.fi/shd
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-17 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-15 10:22 [PATCH] Documentation/git-submodule.txt: Add Description section Petr Baudis
2008-07-15 14:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-15 18:37 ` Heikki Orsila
2008-07-16 18:44 ` [PATCHv2] " Petr Baudis
2008-07-16 19:15 ` Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
2008-07-16 19:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-17 12:18 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-17 12:29 ` [PATCH] Documentation/git-submodule.txt: Further clarify the description Petr Baudis
2008-07-17 13:37 ` Heikki Orsila
2008-07-17 20:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-18 13:36 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-18 13:40 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-17 10:41 ` Heikki Orsila [this message]
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