Re: Why do git submodules require manual checkouts and commits?

["Lars Hjemli" <lh@elementstorage.no>]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>  On Fri, 16 May 2008, Avery Pennarun wrote:
>
>
> > Think of it this way: I can commit, or not commit, my dirty Makefile at
>  > the same time as everything else (in a single project) with a single
>  > "git commit" line, depending on what I want to do.  Things like "git
>  > commit -a" and "git add -u" speed up the common case where I just want
>  > to commit everything.  But with submodules, that common case looks more
>  > like this:
>  >
>  >    cd sub
>  >    git checkout -b manual_branchname_because_there_was_no_default
>  >    git commit -a
>  >    git push etc.
>  >    cd ..
>  >    git commit -a
>  >    git push etc.
>
>  Funny, for me it looks completely different:
>
>  $ cd sub
>  # work, work, work
>  # from time to time commit
>  # from time to time rebase -i to clean up some things
>  # test, test, test
>  # sometimes push
>
>  And then, every once in a while, it is
>
>  $ cd ..
>  $ git add submodule
>  $ git commit -s submodule
>  $ git push

Just to add to the picture, for me it's

$ (cd submodule && git checkout tag)
$ git add submodule
$ git commit -s -m "Use submodule-tag"

If I want to work in/with the submodule, I usually do that by "cd
../submodule", i.e. I've got another clone of the submodule
repository.

--
lh