Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

Dnia niedziela 3. grudnia 2006 02:24, Robin Rosenberg napisał:

lördag 02 december 2006 21:16 skrev Jakub Narebski:

quoted

The problem with submodule as separate git repository is that if you
move submodule (subproject) somewhere else in the repository (or just
rename it), you have to update alternates file... and this happens not
only on move itself, but also on checkout and reset. But that can be
managed by having in alternates all possible places the submodule ends
into. I don't know if it is truly a problem.

A nasty problem with separate repositories for submodules is that when you 
screw up and git complains about everything you try do do, you previously 
could do rm -rf *; git reset --hard and retry whatever you were trying to do. 
With separate repositories your submodules will be resting in /dev/null, 
unless you're very, very careful. 

Actually, rm -rf * is not needed for "git reset --hard" or
"git checkout -f" to succeed.

-- 
Jakub Narebski