On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Imran M Yousuf <imyousuf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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?
> No difference at this point. But using logical name can help add
> modules in batch such as "git submodule add -m service"
>
Ok I am working on something similar a recurse command for git
submodule; thats why I asked it. Hopefully will appear in mailing list
tomorrow :).
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > 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?
> > > >
> Since the user designate only util module, we needn't automatically
> deduce the related modules for them. And as you have said, we can't
> deduce well since util may be referenced by several logical modules.
>
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