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From: "Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com>
To: "Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] git-submodule: multiple-level modules definition
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 19:18:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c5c35580803021018v7590ad76kbbab2b1113e27666@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320803020911m30c8e3b3w80c0c92258a45f0f@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
>  4. Do we really need 'init' subcommand?

Yes: .git/config tells git which submodule(s) the user is interested
in and where to fetch updates from for these submodules, while
.gitmodules is used to map a submodule _name_ to a submodule _path_
and also to provide a url where submodule updates _can_ be fetched.

So the actual use of submodules is strictly a local configuration
issue and as such it needs to be kept in .git/config. And to help the
user populate .git/config with submodule information we have 'git
submodule init'.

--
larsh

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-02 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-02 17:11 [RFC] git-submodule: multiple-level modules definition Ping Yin
2008-03-02 18:18 ` Lars Hjemli [this message]
2008-03-03  1:47   ` Ping Yin
2008-03-03  6:57     ` Lars Hjemli
2008-03-03 11:02       ` Ping Yin
2008-03-03 11:51         ` Lars Hjemli
2008-03-03 12:45           ` Ping Yin
2008-03-04 13:27 ` Ping Yin

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