Re: git merge banch w/ different submodule revision

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On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We often treating a submodule as a file from the superproject, but not always.
> And in case of a merge, git seems to be a bit smarter than treating it
> as a textfile
> with two different lines.

Sure, but a submodule is checked out "at a commit", so if two branches
of history are merged, and they conflict over which place the
submodule is at.... shouldn't that produce a conflict??

I mean, how is the merge algorithm supposed to know which is right?
The patch you linked appears to be able to resolve it to the one which
contains both commits.. but that may not actually be true since you
can rewind submodules since they're *pointers* to commits, not commits
themselves.

I'm not against that as a possible strategy to merge submodules, but
it seems like not necessarily something you would always want...

Thanks,
Jake



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