Re: Git Submodule Usage Pattern

[Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> wrote:
> Apparently, submodules are not configured on a per-repo basis, unless
> I'm totally misunderstanding something.  The .gitmodules file wants to
> be checked in just like .gitignore, etc.  I don't know if submodules
> will work correctly without syncing that between repos, either.  What
> I need is to have the submodule at work point at a different repo than
> the submodule at Home to avoid firewall issues.  Or for someone to
> suggest a different work flow that would allow me to have my main home
> repo point at GitHub using my private git:// address and the
> zen-and-art repo using it's public git:// clone address and then have
> my Work repo clone from GitHub around the firewall (or somewhere else,
> GitHub's http cloning is still pretty Janky) but then push to the
> Stick.

Three suggestions I can offer:

1) After running 'git submodule init', look in .git/config.  You can
change which repos the submodules point to from there, on a per-repo
basis, and not affect other people's checkouts.

2) Try using relative repo paths (like ../foo.git) in .gitmodules.
Then as long as your repositories are siblings of each other, if you
can check out one you can check out the other.

3) git-subtree (http://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree) does not
exhibit this problem.

Have fun,

Avery