Re: [PATCH] Teach git submodule update to use distributed repositories

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On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Nigel Magnay wrote:
>
>> When doing a git submodule update, it fetches any missing submodule
>> commits from the repository specified in .gitmodules.
>
> Huh?  It takes what is in .git/config!  Not what is in .gitmodules.
>

Huh? And where does .git/config get it from? Oh, that's right, .gitmodules.

> So if you have another remote (or URL, e.g. if you have ssh:// access, but
> the .gitmodules file lists git://), just edit .git/config.
>

So for my usecase, you'd have me go in and change *evey single one* of
my submodule refs from the centralised repository, *every time* I want
to do a peer review?

Doesn't the current system strike you as being somewhat centralised in nature?

> I meant, that is the whole _point_ of having a two-step init/update
> procedure.
>

Are you just determined that submodules should remain useless for "the
rest of us"?

> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
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