On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 08:57:20PM +0200, Jens Lehmann wrote: > Am 15.10.2014 um 00:15 schrieb Max Kirillov: >> I think the logic can be simple: it a submodule is not >> checked-out in the repository "checkout --to" is called >> from, then it is not checked-out to the new one also. If it >> is, then checkout calls itself recursively in the submodule >> and works like being run in standalone repository. > > But when I later decide to populate the submodule in a > "checkout --to" work tree, should it automagically also > use the central storage, creating the modules/<name> > directory there if it doesn't exist yet? I think that'd > make sense to avoid having the work tree layout depend > on the order commands were ran in. And imagine new > submodules, they should not be handled differently from > those already present.
Like place the common directory to $MAIN_REPO/.git/modules/$SUB/ and worktree-specific part to $MAIN_REPO/.git/worktrees/$WORKTREE/modules/$SUB, rather than placing all into the socond one? It would make sense to make, but then it would be imposible to checkout a diferent repository into the same submodule in different superproject checkouts. However stupid is sounds, there could be cases if, for example, at some moment submodule is being replaced by another one, and older worktrees should work with older submodule, while newer uses the newer submodule. Maybe, there could be some options to tell the command which populates submodules (which commands that are? "submodule update" and other submodule subcommands? or there is something else?) to use the curent checkout space or the main one. But I would still leave it depend on what user explicitly calls and where the initial submodule update is executed. Also, could you clarify the usage of the /modules/ directory. I did not notice it to affect anything after the submofule is placed there. Submodule operations use the submodule repositories directly (through the git link, which can point anywhere), or in .gitmodules file, or maybe in .git/config. So there is actually no need to have that gitdir there. Is it correct? -- Max -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
