On 09/11/2011 18:01, Junio C Hamano wrote:
This is almost ready but I would like to know what users of the "floating submodule" think about this.
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I do like to hear from potential users as well, because the general impression we got was that floating submodules is not a real need of anybody,
Floating modules are something much sought after by those who use Git for non-development purposes, like those who have most of their $HOME versioned with Git [1]. For example, part of what Joey Hess's `mr` tool [2] does is to simulate floating submodules for Git-versioned $HOMEs.
In the context of versioned $HOMEs, or with backups in general, precise tracking of submodules updates is not that important. To quote [3]: «Last, change tracking is a bit more lenient with home directories. I may shuffle some stuff around, and I don't need to explain the changes to anyone else.». In my case, I want my ~/Documents dir (that is in a different repo from $HOME) to be always updated; I would prefer not to deal with submodule updates, merges and detached HEADs.
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