From: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web•de>
To: henri GEIST <henri.geist@flying-robots•com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: tracking submodules out of main directory.
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:20:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E0980D5.8040004@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1309211460.2497.395.camel@Naugrim.eriador.com>
Am 27.06.2011 23:51, schrieb henri GEIST:
> Le lundi 27 juin 2011 à 12:05 -0700, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
>> Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web•de> writes:
>>
>>> Am 27.06.2011 18:51, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>>>> One possible working tree organization may look like this:
>>>>
>>>> -+- lib1
>>>> +- project1/Makefile -- refers to ../lib1
>>>> +- project2/Makefile -- refers to ../lib1
>>> ...
>>>> An interesting point your situation raises is that there is no direct way
>>>> to express module dependencies in .gitmodules file right now, I think.
>>>> Ideally you would want "submodule init project1" to infer automatically
>>>> that project1 needs lib1 and run "submodule init lib1" for you. My gut
>>>> feeling is that it belongs to .gitmodules of the superproject
>>>
>>> That is where this is handled now, but having a submodule refer to a
>>> submodule outside of it as a dependency is an interesting thought. But
>>> as that only matters at the moment you add project1 (and it won't compile
>>> because ../lib1 is missing, which can easily handled by: "oh, then I have
>>> to add lib1 as a submodule to the superproject too"), ...
>>
>> That is what I called "there is no direct way". Wouldn't it be nicer if
>> the .gitmodules file in the superproject said something like
>>
>> [module "project one"]
>> path = project1
>> url = ...
>> depends = lib1
>> [module "lib1"]
>> path = lib1
>> url = ...
>>
>> and then "git submodule init project1" run by the end user implied running
>> also "git submodule init lib1"?
>>
>>
>
> This could be a way if .gitmodules can contain something like
>
> [module "project one"]
> path = project1
> url = ...
> depends = lib1 "123456"
> [module "project two"]
> path = project2
> url = ...
> depends = lib1 "abcdef"
> [module "lib1"]
> path = lib1
> url = ...
But there is no need for that as "123456" and "abcdef" are already present
as the sha1 values for the gitlinks "lib1" and "lib2".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-28 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-27 13:07 tracking submodules out of main directory henri GEIST
2011-06-27 16:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-27 18:14 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-06-27 18:52 ` henri GEIST
2011-06-27 18:56 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-06-27 21:18 ` henri GEIST
2011-06-27 19:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-27 19:40 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-06-27 21:57 ` henri GEIST
2011-06-28 7:25 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-06-28 11:55 ` henri GEIST
2011-06-27 21:51 ` henri GEIST
2011-06-28 7:20 ` Jens Lehmann [this message]
2011-06-28 7:37 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-06-28 11:52 ` henri GEIST
2011-06-28 10:05 ` Alexei Sholik
2011-06-28 17:00 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-07-27 18:49 ` henri GEIST
2011-07-28 8:57 ` henri GEIST
2011-07-28 16:48 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-07-29 9:39 ` henri GEIST
2011-07-30 14:16 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-07-30 21:55 ` henri GEIST
2011-08-01 19:39 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-08-02 12:19 ` henri GEIST
2011-08-02 18:42 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-08-03 6:25 ` Heiko Voigt
2011-08-03 12:26 ` henri GEIST
2011-08-03 17:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-03 19:07 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-08-03 19:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-03 21:30 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-08-03 22:29 ` henri GEIST
2011-08-04 17:45 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-08-05 0:29 ` henri GEIST
2011-08-04 20:05 ` Heiko Voigt
2011-08-05 2:19 ` henri GEIST
2011-08-03 21:45 ` Heiko Voigt
2011-08-03 22:41 ` henri GEIST
2011-08-03 21:49 ` henri GEIST
2011-08-03 21:04 ` henri GEIST
2011-08-01 22:12 ` Heiko Voigt
2011-08-02 12:58 ` henri GEIST
[not found] ` <CAJsNXT=93FHjbi42JKA3Pg7PGXs0kEONJ5AC5SSPpa5RSVqB=A@mail.gmail.com>
2011-08-03 9:07 ` henri GEIST
2011-06-27 18:40 ` henri GEIST
2011-06-27 19:02 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-06-27 21:45 ` henri GEIST
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