Re: Updating a submodule with a compatible version from another submodule version using the parent meta-repository

Am 26.01.2011 19:32, schrieb Julian Ibarz:

I am using git submodule in one of my professional projects and I am
facing an issue when I am using git bisect in one of the submodules.

Basically I have a meta repository which I will call A and two
submodules B and C. Sometimes I use git bisect in B but it is
dependent on C so when I go back too much in the history of B, C needs
to change its version to a compatible one. Doing this manually is
really time consuming for me and I guess a lot of people have this
issue so I was a little bit surprise to not find easily anything on
the net that permits to do this automatically.

What about bisecting in A (doing "git submodule update" after every
step) to bisect to a smaller range of commits in B (which are then
not dependent on your submodule C anymore and can be bisected inside
B)? This of course assumes A properly records the dependencies
between B and C.

Is there anything existing to do that and I just didn't find it yet?
If not I think I might have an implementation idea I would like to try
out.

The call to "git submodule update" after each bisect step in the
superproject will be obsolete as soon as the recursive checkout
I am currently working on is done, but that is not here yet.