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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach git submodule update to use distributed repositories
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> In that case you would need the "URL mappings", perhaps as a per-remote
> attribute. That is, you could configure:
>
>        "When I am doing git pull fred, do git submodule update but
>        apply remote.fred.subrewrite sed script on each URL before
>        fetching the submodule."
>
> Still, that feels quite hackish to me, and I'm not convinced that your
> workflow cannot be adjusted so that users merge only the next-to-last
> commit of a branch instead of the last one.
>

Hm - I'm still disliking having 'special' commits to change
.gitmodules. I can hack scripts to make it work, but it would be nice
to have a UI that is generally useful.

Thinking out loud, could we have in .git/config something like

[submodule "moduleA"]
   url = git://origin.com/path/to/.git  # Current place of origin
   fred.url = git://fredcomputer/path/to/freds/moduleA.git # where
fred declares moduleA to come from
   local = git://myhost/working/copy/super/moduleA/.git # where other
people can get access to *my* moduleA repo

So if I look in the git repository of fred (as specified in my [remote
"fred"], I can see their "local" entry, and enter that as fred.url in
my config

And the ability to do (e.g)

$ git submodule init fred
$ git submodule update fred

?