On 6/12/07, Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:27:00AM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote: > On 6/12/07, Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Your previous patch had "_a_ path" instead of "_the_ path". > >I prefer the former since it allows a module to be checkoud out > >at multiple locations. > > This is somewhat intentional. I want to move the submodule repos into > .git/submodules/$name/ (with working dir) and symlink this directory I had that in my patch series, but I got a complaint that symlinks don't work on Windows.
Yeah, I didn't consider windows.
> Multiple checkout paths for a single submodule will bring havoc on > this plan, so I need to ask: what is the use-case for multiple > checkout paths? The case where you need two different versions of the same submodule in one (presumably big) project.
Let me rephrase: why would anyone need to checkout two different versions of the same submodule simultaneously inside a single superproject? -- larsh - 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
