On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Lars Hjemli <hjemli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 4. Do we really need 'init' subcommand? > > Yes: .git/config tells git which submodule(s) the user is interested > in and where to fetch updates from for these submodules, while > .gitmodules is used to map a submodule _name_ to a submodule _path_ > and also to provide a url where submodule updates _can_ be fetched. > > So the actual use of submodules is strictly a local configuration > issue and as such it needs to be kept in .git/config. And to help the > user populate .git/config with submodule information we have 'git > submodule init'. Is it always a local configuration issue? In a project with hundreds of submodule, will anybody modify the submodule url? I think .gitmodules can be the default repository configuration, and when we have local configuration issue, we can override the configuration in .git/config with the help of git init. But why always use git init even when we don't have the local configuration requirement? > > -- > larsh > -- Ping Yin -- 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
