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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: let git grep consider sub projects
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On Wed, Oct 08, Jens Lehmann wrote:

> Okay, I just checked that xen doesn't use submodules but uses simple
> embedded repos ignored by the .gitignore file. From a quick glance
> it looks like handling the sub projects is scripted in the Makefiles.
> This is perfectly fine, but then you can't really expect git commands
> to know about these sub projects. Or am I missing something?

I just did not know about the submodule command. And I did not realize
that they are in .gitignore, which should have been obvious.

I will check if using submodule instead of plain clone can be done,
without breaking anyones workflow.


Olaf