Well this is an unexpected and most welcome development. Way to go Arnaud!
On Mon, Jul 1, 2019, 06:53 Artem Pelenitsyn <a.pelenit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Jost, > > Thanks for researching this! In fact, Arnaud did his own research on this > topic and submitted !1309 [1] to switch to the absolute paths. The MR has > been approved by Ben swiftly and now awaits merging. > > I believe we should default to the common case, which is to use abs paths > making the life of, presumably, many people easier, and let those who > understand submodules hack their way through them. > > [1]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/merge_requests/1309 > > -- > Best wishes, > Artem > > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 12:17, Jost Berthold <jost.berth...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Just on this detail in the previous mails: >> >> On 6/25/19 10:00 PM, ghc-devs-requ...@haskell.org wrote: >> >> More generally, I'm actually wondering, why GHC's .gitsubmodules use >> > relative paths. Why not make them absolute? >> > >> > I continue to wonder about that and if switching to absolute paths might >> > remove this wrinkle. Can anyone chime in? >> >> I remember the relative paths for submodules were added to make working >> with several clones of the GHC repo (to lower rebuild cost for >> simultaneous branches or similar) easier. >> >> With relative paths, one can make a second local clone from the first >> one and all references to all submodules will share local data. >> >> That said, this does get in the way sometimes. I changed back to >> absolute paths in my GHC fork quite a while back. >> >> >> / Jost >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> ghc-devs@haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > -- This message, and any attachments, is for the intended recipient(s) only, may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or proprietary and subject to important terms and conditions available at http://www.digitalasset.com/emaildisclaimer.html <http://www.digitalasset.com/emaildisclaimer.html>. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message.
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