Re: [PATCH 5/5] Add gitmodules(5)

On 6/12/07, Sven Verdoolaege [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:27:00AM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote:

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On 6/12/07, Sven Verdoolaege [off-list ref] wrote:

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Your previous patch had "_a_ path" instead of "_the_ path".
I prefer the former since it allows a module to be checkoud out
at multiple locations.

This is somewhat intentional. I want to move the submodule repos into
.git/submodules/$name/ (with working dir) and symlink this directory

I had that in my patch series, but I got a complaint that symlinks
don't work on Windows.

Yeah, I didn't consider windows.

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Multiple checkout paths for a single submodule will bring havoc on
this plan, so I need to ask: what is the use-case for multiple
checkout paths?

The case where you need two different versions of the same
submodule in one (presumably big) project.

Let me rephrase: why would anyone need to checkout two different
versions of the same submodule simultaneously inside a single
superproject?

-- 
larsh