Re: FW: Query on git submodules

2015-06-02 Thread Mattias Vannergård
Frawley, Sarah sarah.frawley at intel.com writes: Correct when I referred to 10+ layers I meant nested repositories which make up a large hierarchy.  Some repositories are repeated across the hierarchy.  We check-out submodules to tag versions (as opposed to master branch).  If we need to

Re: FW: Query on git submodules

2015-06-02 Thread Heiko Voigt
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:20:11PM +, Frawley, Sarah wrote: Thanks Heiko for getting back to me. Correct when I referred to 10+ layers I meant nested repositories which make up a large hierarchy.  Some repositories are repeated across the hierarchy.  We check-out submodules to tag

Re: FW: Query on git submodules

2015-06-02 Thread Mattias Vannergård
Heiko Voigt hvoigt at hvoigt.net writes: What exactly is the feature of using a tag instead of a commit id like it is currently the default? A tag should be nailed to a commit anyway or does it change in your situation? In that case I would say it is a branch. Cheers Heiko

RE: FW: Query on git submodules

2015-06-02 Thread Frawley, Sarah
:12 PM To: Frawley, Sarah Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FW: Query on git submodules On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:20:11PM +, Frawley, Sarah wrote: Thanks Heiko for getting back to me. Correct when I referred to 10+ layers I meant nested repositories which make up a large hierarchy

Re: FW: Query on git submodules

2015-06-02 Thread Heiko Voigt
On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 09:45:39AM +, Mattias Vannergård wrote: I am planning on using submodules in a way, where I can specify a configuration of repos with tags, and rebuild the submodule tree, when selecting a configuration on the top level. But, yet I have found no easy way to

FW: Query on git submodules

2015-05-27 Thread Frawley, Sarah
26, 2015 6:01 PM To: Frawley, Sarah Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Query on git submodules Hi, On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 01:46:24PM +, Frawley, Sarah wrote: I am a design automation engineer supporting 200+ designers who use git for hardware design.  We also use the submodule feature

Re: Query on git submodules

2015-05-26 Thread Heiko Voigt
Hi, On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 01:46:24PM +, Frawley, Sarah wrote: I am a design automation engineer supporting 200+ designers who use git for hardware design.  We also use the submodule feature where we can have quite complex hierarchy's with 10+ layers. What does this 10+ layers mean?

Query on git submodules

2015-05-22 Thread Frawley, Sarah
Hi there I am a design automation engineer supporting 200+ designers who use git for hardware design.  We also use the submodule feature where we can have quite complex hierarchy's with 10+ layers.  We have experience issues with re-use of design projects was we move from one derivative to