Re: Submodule URL

On 27 June 2011 15:58, Seth Robertson [off-list ref] wrote:

In message [ref], Hilco Wijbenga writes:

   As I was creating a script to support a question about submodules I
   ran into something that I don't understand. I've attached a simple
   script that fails to execute properly. I don't understand why.

Perhaps you should consider gitslave as an alternative to
git-submodule, depending on your development workflow it may be better
(or worse).

FYI, yes, somebody read the entire tutorial and learnt something. ;-)

gitslave (http://gitslave.sf.net) is useful when you control and
develop on the subprojects at more of less the same time as the
superproject, and furthermore when you typically want to tag, branch,
push, pull, etc all repositories at the same time.

:-) Perfect! That's seems to be *exactly* what I need.

How hard is it to turn an umbrella project with content and quite a
few submodules (only 1 level deep) into a gitslave repo?

git-submodule is better when you do not control the subprojects or
more specifically wish to fix the subproject at a specific revision
even as the subproject changes

However, more directly to your question, we see that using absolute
pathnames (not file: URLs) works.  See
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSubmoduleTutorial

If this works for you and file:// does not, I'd say it was a bug in
git.

Well, it seems like a bug to me then. Still, maybe I made a mistake in
my script. I hope somebody else can chime in too.