Hi,

The changed submodule name looks like
a new name and the old submodule was deleted.
How does a tool determine it is some old submodule
but the name was changed?

Andy




On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:33 AM, William Lupton <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Thanks for the responses. One clarification below on what is definitely a
> minor point!
>
> On 22 Jan 2016, at 00:18, Andy Bierman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:45 AM, William Lupton <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > 2. Rules re changing submodule names
>> >
>> > Section 5.7 (Lifecycle Management) says that "The [...] submodule name
>> MUST NOT be changed, once the document containing the module or submodule
>> is published" but this might contradict RFC 6020 Section 11, which says "A
>> module may be split into a set of submodules, or a submodule may be
>> removed...".
>> >
>> > More specifically, 6020 doesn't mention renaming a submodule (so
>> presumably that's not permitted), but the mention of both splitting modules
>> into submodules AND removing submodules suggests that arbitrary
>> module/submodule refactoring is permitted. And if I'm being pedantic,
>> revision #1 could have submodule A1, revision #2 could remove it, and
>> revision #3 could reintroduce it as submodule A2, so that's effectively a
>> rename!
>>
>
> I do not see any issue here.
> Moving an object does not change the submodule name.
>
>
> My point was to question why renaming submodules is forbidden when in fact
> it seems that submodule rename can be achieved via other means. It's not
> that I actually want to do it, just that 6087 and 6020 don't seem quite
> consistent on this topic.
>
> William
>
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