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From: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>,
	Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] Recursively checkout, merge and reset populated submodules
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:32:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D632029.7040501@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ei70riw1.fsf@catnip.gol.com>

On 02/21/2011 07:51 PM, Miles Bader wrote:
> Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> writes:
>>> >> So, .gitmodules initially controls recursion.  When a submodule gets
>>> >> populated, it gets an entry in .git/config which then determines the
>>> >> recursion behavior from then on.  Changing branches might change .gitmodules,
>>> >> but anything in .git/config will persist so any customizations the user makes
>>> >> will also persist.
>> >
>> > Yes. Upstream can give sane defaults but the user has the last word.
> If .git/config entries are created _automatically_ based on the initial
> .gitmodules, doesn't that means it will cease to respect the upstream
> defaults in the case where .gitmodules changes, even if the user didn't
> actually change anything himself...?

Also consider that the .gitmodules'  "upstream defaults" may have many
changes
within the existing repository.  So, $(git checkout foo) will load some
"defaults" and
$(git checkout bar) may load different "defaults".  I guess the defaults
can be migrated
into .git/config using $(git submodule init)...?

Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-22  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-18  1:02 [1.8.0] Summary of the discussions Junio C Hamano
2011-02-18  2:08 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2011-02-19 16:40 ` [1.7.5] Let fetch and pull recurse into submodules when new commits are recorded Jens Lehmann
2011-02-21 15:12   ` Marc Branchaud
2011-02-21 17:38     ` Jens Lehmann
2011-02-19 16:59 ` [1.8.0] Recursively checkout, merge and reset populated submodules Jens Lehmann
2011-02-20  6:49   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-21 16:13   ` Marc Branchaud
2011-02-21 18:30     ` Jens Lehmann
2011-02-21 19:56       ` Marc Branchaud
2011-02-21 22:54         ` Jens Lehmann
2011-02-22  0:51           ` Miles Bader
2011-02-22  2:32             ` Phil Hord [this message]
2011-02-22  8:11               ` Jens Lehmann

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