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

On 6/1/07, Sven Verdoolaege [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 11:25:42AM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote:

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On 6/1/07, Sven Verdoolaege [off-list ref] wrote:

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Could you please document the proposed .gitmodules first?

The man-page for git-submodule found in 'next' mentions how it uses
.gitmodules, but there isn't (yet) a separate man-page for
.gitmodules(5).

That's what I'd like to see first.
.gitmodules(5) will hopefully not change in an incompatible
way after it is accepted, while there is no such constraint
for git-submodule.

True

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[path '$path']
 submodule=modulename
 url=/some/url

Wouldn't it make more sense to have

[path '$path']
        submodule=modulename

and

[submodule '$modulename']
        url=/some/url

in case the same module appears in more than one path?

Yes, that would be a properly normalized model.

Hmm.... Maybe we could allow both variations, with your suggestion
overriding mine if both are present? (I think there would be many
cases where the extra level of [submodule...] wouldn't be needed.
Also, the url in .gitmodules will only function as the initially
suggested url stored in the 'superprojects' .git/config)

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larsh