Re: submodules' shortcomings, was Re: RFC: display dirty submodule working directory in git gui and gitk

On Tuesday 05 January 2010, Heiko Voigt wrote:

P.S.: Additionally (for my use case) we could add a "hint mechanism"
which allows git to "guess" a new submodules address. For example in
case I have all my local clones on
"git@my.server.net:<modulename>.git". Now when a new submodule gets
seen in .gitmodules it will infer the address from the hint
configuration and not take the original one from upstream.

This can be achieved today, if the upstream .gitmodules uses relative 
submodule URLs. I normally place super-repo and submodules in a single 
directory on the server, and use submodule URLs of the 
form "../<modulename>.git". Now, downstream developers can "git 
clone --mirror" the repos from my server, and - as long as they 
preserve the directory layout - provide their own complete server 
mirror, without editing .gitmodules. Granted, the existing submodule 
tools don't make working with relative submodule URLs particularily 
easy...


...Johan

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Johan Herland, [off-list ref]
www.herland.net