On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Steven Grimm wrote: > On Nov 20, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > >This has theoretical problems: it's going to be practically impossible, in > >most cases, to write a commit message that describes changes in three > >submodules (which are sometimes used in the context of a different > >supermodule) as well as the supermodule. > > I got the impression from his email that there *are* no other supermodules. > The submodules are submodules purely to reduce the amount of data people have > to transfer around, not because they're logically distinct from the parent. He said: "there are multiple superprojects sharing some of the submodules." Getting the effect of partial checkouts was the first-listed reason, but not the only one. The submodules don't make sense except in the context of some supermodule, but there are multiple contexts they each appear in. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* - 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
