Re: Intricacies of submodules [was: Migrating svn to git with heavy use of externals]

["Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 02:34 -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
>  > So everyone will have all the necessary refs anyway; as long as
>  > git-checkout checks them out, .gitmodules shouldn't have to exist at
>  > all, becaues there's nothing "special" for git-submodule to do.
>
>  I would very much like to have that, yes. Please do provide additional
>  details on how's your setup is different from mine.

Sorry, I wasn't clear.  I meant that there's no fundamental reason
that this shouldn't be possible; as far as I know, there's no way to
make git do this in an obvious way (yet).

It's encouraging that other people seem to want the same behaviour as
me, which means I might get to working on it sooner :)  Not that this
should discourage you from trying, of course: perhaps I'm just missing
something too.

Note: I think a big part of the secret is using "." as the location of
the submodule's repository in .gitmodules.  "git submodule add" seems
to expand . to a full path, but you can change it by hand if you edit
the file.

Have fun,

Avery