Hello everybody
I am trying to use git-subtree to follow a subproject but I have a couple of
problems and I am not sure if I am doing something wrong
Basically I am trying to use a tag on the subproject as my "base" for the
subproject but subtree doesn't seem to handle that properly
my first attempt was to simply do
"git subtree add --squash git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot 2013.02"
but subtree refused, telling me that the SHA of the tag is not a valid commit.
Ok it makes sense, though I think this is a very valid use-case...
so I tried
"git subtree add git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot 2013.02^{commit}"
which was refused because git fetch can't parse the ^{commit} marker.
Again it makes sense, but I really want to start from that tag.
so I tried
"git fetch git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot 2013.02"
"git subtree add --squash FETCH_HEAD"
which worked. Ok at that point I am slightly abusing git subtree, but it seems
a valid usage
except that this last attempt causes serious problems when trying to split out
the tree again
the call to "git commit-tree" within "git subtree split" complains that the SHA
of the parent
is not a valid commit SHA. Which is true, it's the SHA of the tag.
At this point I am not sure if I am abusing subtree, if I have a legitimate but
unimplemented use-case and how to
fix/implement it.
the squash-commit message only contains the SHA of the tag, should it contain
the SHA of the commit ?
"subtree split" can only handle commit SHA, should it somehow follow tag SHA
too ? how ?
this is probably a trivial fix for someone with good knowledge of git-subtree
but i'm not there yet, so any hint would be welcomed
Regards
Jérémy Rosen
fight key loggers : write some perl using vim
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