Re: [PATCH] Let .git/config specify the url for submodules

On Thursday 31 May 2007, Lars Hjemli wrote:

On 5/28/07, Lars Hjemli [off-list ref] wrote:

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This changes git-submodule in a few ways:

Please don't apply the "Let .git/config specify the url for
submodules" patch, I'm having second thoughts ;-)

Your design outline in
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/48287 is
obviously superior, and I'd like to take a stab at it with something
like this:

1. 'git-submodule init' saves submodule name and suggested url from
.gitmodules into .git/config (submodule.$name.url)

2. 'git-submodule update' keeps the work tree updated for submodules
with five separate (and optional) operations:
  a) git-clone --bare $url .git/submodules/$name.git
  b) git-clone -l -s .git/submodules/$name.git $path
  c) cd .git/submodules/$name.git && git-fetch
  d) cd $path && git-fetch
  e) cd $path && git-checkout $sha1

3) 'git-submodule push' runs something like 'cd $path && git push
origin $branch', where $branch is found in .gitmodules
(path.$path.branch).

So if you need superproject related corrections in the submodule,
you always have to do it on branch "path.$path.branch" in the
submodule to get it saved?

I would assume that pushing the current branch should be enough.
If you want to play with multiple different "corrections" on
different branches in the submodule, you do not want to force
the branch name to a unique one given in .gitmodules.

Josef