From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Add gitmodules(5) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:03:26 +0200 Organization: eudaptics software gmbh Message-ID: <466E7D7E.7BAB2FD@eudaptics.com> References: <20070611225918.GD4323@planck.djpig.de> <11816319211097-git-send-email-hjemli@gmail.com> <20070612080402.GQ955MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> <8c5c35580706120127p649227d8gc706cb8b364d02b9@mail.gmail.com> <466E7A17.CEB0F196@eudaptics.com> <8c5c35580706120352y24e53a10sf339147b22f1286e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Frank Lichtenheld , Junio C Hamano , skimo@liacs.nl, git@vger.kernel.org To: Lars Hjemli X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 12 13:02:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hy48k-0004Cl-5q for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:02:22 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751026AbXFLLCH (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:02:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751410AbXFLLCH (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:02:07 -0400 Received: from lilzmailso01.liwest.at ([212.33.55.23]:9429 "EHLO lilzmailso01.liwest.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751026AbXFLLCG (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:02:06 -0400 Received: from cm56-163-160.liwest.at ([86.56.163.160] helo=linz.eudaptics.com) by lilzmailso01.liwest.at with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1Hy48R-0004g2-8F; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:02:03 +0200 Received: from eudaptics.com (unknown [192.168.1.88]) by linz.eudaptics.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE6DA54D; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:02:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: AWL=0.034 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Lars Hjemli wrote: > > (readded the gitlist) > > On 6/12/07, Johannes Sixt wrote: > > Lars Hjemli wrote: > > > Multiple checkout paths for a single submodule will bring havoc on > > > this plan, so I need to ask: what is the use-case for multiple > > > checkout paths? > > > > A use-case is the admin directory in the KDE repository. It has: > > > > KDE (superproject) > > +- kdelibs (subproject) > > | +- admin (subproject) > > | +- subdir1 > > | +- ... > > +- kdebase (subproject) > > | +- admin (subproject) > > | +- subdir2 > > | +- ... > > +- kdenetwork (subproject) > > | +- admin (subproject) > > | +- subdir3 > > | +- ... > > ... > > But in this case, 'admin' isn't a submodule/subproject contained by > KDE, right? It's contained in three different submodules/subprojects: > kdelibs, kdebase and kdenetwork. Notice how kdelibs, kdebase and kdenetwork are both submodule and supermodule: They host the submodule admin and are hosted by KDE. (If I missed the point, then it's because I didn't follow the discussion; I jumped in because I noticed the symlink proposal by chance.) -- Hannes