From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Avery Pennarun" Subject: Re: Making submodules easier to work with (auto-update on checkout or merge, stash & restore submodules) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:28:00 -0400 Message-ID: <32541b130804301528k70ae2f7eq5229c0b4bb1d3788@mail.gmail.com> References: <8B885217-8C18-417E-8F11-BB6661792CD3@gmail.com> <32541b130804301331o70310831raf71db7cbb51d507@mail.gmail.com> <32541b130804301448i537a0b98ta01cecc472e20aec@mail.gmail.com> <1209594215.25663.864.camel@work.sfbay.sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Tim Harper" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Roman Shaposhnik" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 01 00:28:55 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JrKnG-0001gg-Cl for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 00:28:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762156AbYD3W2G (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:28:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757512AbYD3W2F (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:28:05 -0400 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.190]:27135 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756384AbYD3W2E (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:28:04 -0400 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so516878fkq.5 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:28:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=hJlaWaRcmV6hqxAtCHPY1/9aDtQPl/oOJll69FFCWDg=; b=LF4ObaxOddfkoRq83TPTrYOt5FfEmOVu2F9L58mczT5bFA9Q8O+aASl0TPPf5wFW/UbAbNq8dRPca4D9Alu9Zy3OmUp2klTILnsFzVy1bqdddCifaTKT5019+Kq5qLeICkZMwVMmXCMkCA7I1cbAJzUkTUvmjFQnKL8RMUEIJbM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Mu2dLi2GXoIkGzbmzopOz9E2t2IkOrE0SqtknfhEteZNamAGyjOO2R0qYFR+YTN2eyT9GWuKSSpV/TJqLIEYhPNczTB8Do0RHU+FNQseHEHp2OEneZMFq1t64YVZs3buTbHtgUhmsOMy2+eU0ITfyh3WrFJ5fybL6rMlE5zR/Gw= Received: by 10.82.126.5 with SMTP id y5mr190042buc.50.1209594480630; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:28:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.166.12 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:28:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1209594215.25663.864.camel@work.sfbay.sun.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 4/30/08, Roman Shaposhnik 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