On 27 June 2011 15:58, Seth Robertson <in-gitvger@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > In message <BANLkTikyZxiW_t27Y4bXCPBjbJd_DYbOyw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Hilco Wijbenga writes: > > As I was creating a script to support a question about submodules I > ran into something that I don't understand. I've attached a simple > script that fails to execute properly. I don't understand why. > > Perhaps you should consider gitslave as an alternative to > git-submodule, depending on your development workflow it may be better > (or worse). FYI, yes, somebody read the entire tutorial and learnt something. ;-) > gitslave (http://gitslave.sf.net) is useful when you control and > develop on the subprojects at more of less the same time as the > superproject, and furthermore when you typically want to tag, branch, > push, pull, etc all repositories at the same time. :-) Perfect! That's seems to be *exactly* what I need. How hard is it to turn an umbrella project with content and quite a few submodules (only 1 level deep) into a gitslave repo? > git-submodule is better when you do not control the subprojects or > more specifically wish to fix the subproject at a specific revision > even as the subproject changes > > However, more directly to your question, we see that using absolute > pathnames (not file: URLs) works. See > https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSubmoduleTutorial > > If this works for you and file:// does not, I'd say it was a bug in > git. Well, it seems like a bug to me then. Still, maybe I made a mistake in my script. I hope somebody else can chime in too. -- 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