Re: Making submodules easier to work with (auto-update on checkout or merge, stash & restore submodules)

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

On 4/30/08, Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 17:48 -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
>  > It would be awesome if you could turn the fancy behaviour of this
>  > bundle into patches to git-submodule, for example, and then have your
>  > textmate macros call the modified git-submodule.  It might be a bit of
>  > an uphill battle to get the patches accepted into the release, but I
>  > think it's worth the effort, as git-submodule in its current state is
>  > just a non-starter for my group at least.
>
> Doesn't the fact that the workflows around submodules tend to differ so
>  much call for different incarnations of git-submodule? IOW, wouldn't
>  it be ok to have an alternative to git-submodule somewhere in contrib?

This would be okay with me.  git-submodule itself doesn't seem to do
anything very complex.  I would be happy to help contribute to such a
thing, as my group needs it rather desperately.

Avery