From: Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-submodule.txt: Further clarify the description
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:37:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080717133729.GF4379@zakalwe.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080717122911.32334.73465.stgit@localhost>
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:29:20PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> +Submodules allow foreign repositories to be embedded within a dedicated
> +subdirectory of the source tree, always pointed at a particular commit.
> +They are not to be confused with remotes, which are meant mainly for branches
> +of the same project; submodules are meant for different projects you would like
> +to make part of your source tree, while the history of the two projects still
> +stays completely independent and you cannot modify the contents of the
> +submodule from within the main project.
That is nice, thanks!
--
Heikki Orsila
heikki.orsila@iki.fi
http://www.iki.fi/shd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-17 13:38 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 [this message]
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 ` [PATCHv2] Documentation/git-submodule.txt: Add Description section Heikki Orsila
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