On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Imran M Yousuf <imyousuf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > .gitmodules with with multiple level of indirection > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > [submodule "service"] > > > submodule = crawler > > > submodule = search > > > [submodule "crawler"] > > > submodule = util > > > submodule = imcrawter > > > [submodule "search"] > > > submodule = util > > > submodule = imsearch > > > > > > At this point I have few questions - Will Service have its own tree > > besides its submodules? > Now, service itself is not a submodule, and service is just a logical > name for a group of moduels. > If I am not mistaken I can do it now as well, by "git submodule add repo path". What would be the difference with this and your approach? > > > > > For your above example of .gitmodules hierarchy if I issue "git > > submodule init -m util", can you please explain what will be the > > outcome, i.e. which modules will be initialized. > > > Only the util module will be initialized using the path and url in > submodule.util.{path,url} > I got that part as thats how git-submodules currently work; Actually what I wanted to know is as util is referenced to several logical submodules, will they be initialized as well? that means wherever util is referenced it will be initialized; is that what it means? > > > > -- > > > > > > -- > 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 > -- Imran M Yousuf Entrepreneur & Software Engineer Smart IT Engineering Dhaka, Bangladesh Email: imran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mobile: +880-1711402557 -- 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