From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>, Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: display dirty submodule working directory in git gui and gitk
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 00:51:36 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf1001040951r3f797750o5ebd25e93c0272ea@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1001041038520.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
On 1/4/10, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> The real problem is that submodules in the current form are not very well
> designed. For example, a submodule being at a different commit than in
> the superproject's index is not as fatal as the submodule having changes.
>
> So in the long run, IMHO a proper redesign of the submodules would not
> make only a little sense (it does not help, though, that those who
> implemented and furthered the current approach over other discussed
> approaches do not use submodules themselves -- not even now).
>
> In ths short run, we can paper over the shortcomings of the submodules by
> introducing a command line option "--include-submodules" to
> update-refresh, diff-files and diff-index, though.
Incidentally I was just drafting git-super.sh it see how far it goes.
The goal was to implement some cross-module operations over time. "git
super status", "git super commit" and others could be handy.
--
Duy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-04 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-02 15:33 RFC: display dirty submodule working directory in git gui and gitk Jens Lehmann
2010-01-04 9:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-04 10:44 ` Heiko Voigt
2010-01-04 11:46 ` submodules, was " Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-04 18:29 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-01-04 19:14 ` Jens Lehmann
2010-01-04 17:04 ` Jens Lehmann
2010-01-04 22:29 ` submodules' shortcomings, was " Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-04 22:27 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-01-04 22:35 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-01-04 22:53 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-01-05 8:11 ` Jens Lehmann
2010-01-05 9:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-05 10:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-05 11:57 ` Jens Lehmann
2010-01-05 18:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-05 20:01 ` Jens Lehmann
2010-01-06 1:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-06 14:05 ` Jens Lehmann
2010-01-06 17:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-06 17:23 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-01-06 17:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-06 18:22 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-01-06 18:32 ` Jens Lehmann
2010-01-06 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-06 21:19 ` Jens Lehmann
2010-01-06 18:20 ` Jens Lehmann
2010-01-05 23:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-05 9:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-05 12:19 ` Jens Lehmann
2010-01-05 14:27 ` Heiko Voigt
2010-01-05 15:07 ` Johan Herland
2010-01-05 15:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-05 22:37 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2010-01-05 23:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-07 11:04 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2010-01-05 20:38 ` Pau Garcia i Quiles
2010-01-05 23:06 ` cmake, was Re: submodules' shortcomings Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-06 1:17 ` Pau Garcia i Quiles
2010-01-06 4:25 ` Miles Bader
2010-01-06 9:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-04 17:51 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [this message]
2010-01-04 18:40 ` RFC: display dirty submodule working directory in git gui and gitk Jens Lehmann
2010-01-04 19:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-04 19:21 ` Jens Lehmann
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