Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 11:30:47AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

The git trees are _independent_. That's important.

I'm not sure how independant you mean them to be.  The approach I've
tried to describe so far assumes that, although you can look at each
submodule independently from the supermodule or any other submodule, you
can still look at the supermodule as a single tree of it own.

Eg, so that if one part of an appliance/ modules ends up promoted to a
lib/ module, GIT can still show that as a move within the supermodule.
If we insist that the submodules get committed independently before we
make a supermodule commit tying those together, I fear it may make things
like such "move/copy detection" more tricky ?

Also, I'd rather expect "git-commit -a" outside of any submodule to
commit everything in the supermodule, triggering submodule commits as an
intermediate step when needed - just like "git-commit -a" does not
require to manually specify subdirectories to inclue in the commit.  I'd
rather expect a special flag to exclude submodules from a commit.

Best regards,
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