Hi Heiko, Thanks for all your feedbacks. Before your first mail I had already implemented command 1 you are talking about and almost finished command 2. Today I could spend some time again on this side project and I have finished command 2. Here is what you do: git submodulecheckout --find-versions <submodule> > <some_temp_file> cd <submodule> git submodulecheckout --find-closest < <some_temp_file> This will output the version you need to checkout in the meta repository. I don't handle the case where there is multiple solutions but it is a good start I think. I think with this you can already start the integration in the submodule bash script to make it recursive and be more user-friendly? Are you still interested Heiko? I have pushed this to my repository so you can check it out if you want. Both commands have a suboptimal implementation but it can be improved without changing the current API so I think it is a minor issue. I will probably try this at work today on msysgit. Currently I am doing this at home on my linux using some open source meta-repository, if you have a big one to try this feature let me know (I am currently using git://git.assembla.com/luadocsuperforest.git and it is not that big). Best regards, Julian Ibarz On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Julian, > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:31:40PM -0500, Julian Ibarz wrote: >> So now my two questions that could save me some time are: >> - is there a function that gives the distance between two commits? I'm >> sure there is something like this coded somewhere but I didn't find it >> yet > > One thing which now came to my mind is that you might be interested in > is to use merge bases to find the earliest commit that contains a > certain revision. > > Have a look at how I implemented the submodule merge strategy that might > help you. You can find it in commit 68d03e4a. I basically do a search > for the earliest commit that contains the commits from both sides. You > could use a similar strategy but limit the possible candidates to a > restricted list of commits which are contained in the supermodule. > > Cheers Heiko > -- 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