On Tuesday 05 January 2010, Heiko Voigt wrote: > P.S.: Additionally (for my use case) we could add a "hint mechanism" > which allows git to "guess" a new submodules address. For example in > case I have all my local clones on > "git@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:<modulename>.git". Now when a new submodule gets > seen in .gitmodules it will infer the address from the hint > configuration and not take the original one from upstream. This can be achieved today, if the upstream .gitmodules uses relative submodule URLs. I normally place super-repo and submodules in a single directory on the server, and use submodule URLs of the form "../<modulename>.git". Now, downstream developers can "git clone --mirror" the repos from my server, and - as long as they preserve the directory layout - provide their own complete server mirror, without editing .gitmodules. Granted, the existing submodule tools don't make working with relative submodule URLs particularily easy... ...Johan -- Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> www.herland.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html