Comments on: git Submodules Explained

By: Henning Glatter-Gotz

Henning Glatter-Gotz — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:50:09 +0000

Mark, nice post that helped me sort out some things while moving from SVN to git. The link referenced at the bottom of the post has a 404 (http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSubmoduleTutorial)

By: Ben Turner (@phantomwhale)

Ben Turner (@phantomwhale) — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:18:06 +0000

Once more I have git knowledge gaps, and once more I find myself hitting your blog via the Google ! Another great post, dude, not only answering my question, but then the next four or five questions that immediately followed ;)

By: An M

An M — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:20:42 +0000

I love 1.7′s git st

By: mark

mark — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:10:06 +0000

szg: yes, I know what you mean – in fact, I’m finding the new behaviour increasingly helpful as I get used to it, although the time taken for “git status” is often infuriating . I suppose I mostly object to the way that such a change was introduced: I think was unfriendly to the users, especially since the options to revert to the existing behaviour are only appearing in later versions now…

By: szg

szg — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:52:48 +0000

I actually prefer the git 1.7 submodule behaviour. With the older git I’ve forgotten to commit in a submodule for nearly a year in a project. Now both git status and git diff show me I’ve done some changes there. The git 1.7 release notes refer to such cases as a justification. I think that the former lightning-fast git-status in a big project with the bulk of the stuff in submodules was just and ILLUSION, both in terms of speed and output. I’m sure you never ever forget about changes in your submodules, but as for me, I’m very very stupid. Git 1.7 is my friend.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:32:08 +0000

There should be a config option for that soon:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg136891.html

By: mark

mark — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:44:23 +0000

VonC: thanks for pointing that out – I hadn’t realized that those changes were in a released version yet. I will update the post.

It’s a shame that there doesn’t (yet?) seem to be a config option that can set a particular –ignore-submodules setting as a default.

By: VonC

VonC — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:35:48 +0000

Git 1.7.2 (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt) seems to want to alleviate the ‘git status’ issue, by adding the “–ignore-submodules” option.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:56:51 +0000

Thanks for the pointer, William – I hadn’t looked properly at repo, but I certainly shall.

By: William

William — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:57:23 +0000

Git is awesome for managing a tree, but when you start to try to manage a forest with submodules, things get ugly (to my taste anyway).

I like google’s repo:
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/11/gerrit-and-repo-android-source.html

Repo isn’t used to replace git. You use git to manage your tree, and repo to manage your forest.