From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Submodules
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 01:07:49 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708080104170.14781@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1bbc6950708071631w5d232e92gd0fa27158b27b5c3@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:
> * how come sumbodules are not initialized when I do a clone of super.
> I expect to be able to build super after I clone it. Is there a new
> (undocumented) flag to clone?
There might be. But one of the reasons submodules are not just tree
objects is that you should be able _not_ to check out all of them (think
KDE).
> * why submodules should be listed in 2 places: in .submodules and in
> super/.git/config?
Well, URLs can change. Therefore, .submodules has what is considered the
current URL, but you can change it yourself in .git/config. (At least
that is how I understood it.)
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-08 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-07 22:37 Submodules Dmitry Kakurin
2007-08-07 22:49 ` Submodules Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-07 23:10 ` Submodules Dmitry Kakurin
2007-08-08 10:27 ` Submodules Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-07 22:50 ` Submodules Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-07 23:31 ` Submodules Dmitry Kakurin
2007-08-08 0:07 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-08-08 10:41 ` Submodules Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-08 19:33 ` Submodules Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 19:40 ` Submodules Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-08 19:59 ` Submodules Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 20:08 ` Submodules Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-08 22:08 ` Submodules Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 22:18 ` Submodules Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-08 20:27 ` Submodules Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 20:47 ` Submodules Andy Parkins
2007-08-08 21:12 ` Submodules Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-09 5:44 ` Submodules Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-08 19:53 ` Submodules Sven Verdoolaege
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-05-03 13:45 submodules shawn wilson
2013-05-03 19:51 ` submodules Jens Lehmann
2014-01-23 8:38 submodules shawn wilson
2014-01-23 17:20 ` submodules W. Trevor King
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