Re: [PATCH] status&commit: Teach them to show commits of modified submodules.

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Junio C Hamano schrieb:
>
> > I am not saying that it is wrong to use submodule to track such groups 
> > of source trees whose versions are very closely tied together.  At 
> > least not yet.
> 
> In KDE, the supermodule will actually just be a container that binds the 
> submodules together. The essential development will happen in the 
> submodules, and the supermodule will receive a commit quite frequently. 
> In this case, there will often be only a few or a few dozen commits 
> listed, and I anticipate that the integrator who is going to make the 
> commit (to the supermodule) will probably like the summary. So I'm all 
> for it.

I like it, too.  And we can make the number of shown commits configurable, 
just like for the merge summary.  But I'd rather see the code in 
wt-status.c than in git-submodule.sh.

Ciao,
Dscho