Re: Submodules

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> +  Note that the current submodule support is minimal and this is
>> +  deliberately so.  A design decision we made is that operations
>> +  at the supermodule level do not recurse into submodules by
>> +  default.  The expectation is that later we would add a
>> +  mechanism to tell git which submodules the user is interested
>> +  in, and this information might be used to determine the
>> +  recursive behaviour of certain commands (e.g. "git checkout"
>> +  and "git diff"), but currently we haven't agreed on what that
>> +  mechanism should look like.  Therefore, if you use submodules,
>> +  you would probably need "git submodule update" on the
>> +  submodules you care about after running a "git checkout" at
>> +  the supermodule level.
>> +
>
> Nice write up!
>
> Is it true that you can run "update" without "init" first?  (I haven't 
> tried yet.)
>
> Also, I realised that git is not really happy unless you install 
> alternates pointing to the object stores of the submodules.  Shouldn't we 
> make this my default (for example in "init")?

Sorry, but I do not use submodules yet myself.  The questions
need to be answered, errors need to be corrected and omissions
need to be added by people who have been more involved in that
area of the system.

That's would be Sven and Lars, probably.

I also think we should have a paragraph of similar spirit
about the work-tree stuff as the top-level bullet point, before
the "New commands and options" list.  I suspect Matthias and you
are the prime candidates to do the honors?