Re: issues with git submodules and `bootstrap'

[Eric Blake]

On 01/10/2012 12:30 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
>> After doing the incantation described in section 2.8 of gnulib.pdf,
>> namely
>>
>>   $ dir=.gnulib
>>   $ git submodule add -- git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git $dir
>>
>> the user has to commit the submodule setup to the repository.  It's
>> probably worth to mention this.
>>
>> However, if I now say `git config --file .gitmodules --list' (I
>> haven't touched the data within `.gitmodules'), I see
>>
>>   submodule..gnulib.path=.gnulib
>>   submodule..gnulib.url=git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git
>>
>> Note the double dot.  Interestingly, the name of the submodule is
>> taken from the directory location, not the repository name.  Maybe a
>> git bug?  I'm using version 1.7.8.
> 
> According to a google search, this is a feature.

Odd.

> 
> I'm unsure how to proceed.  On one hand, I like `.gnulib' as the
> submodule's directory.  On the other hand, I don't like `.gnulib' as
> the submodule name.  It seems that it is impossible to do a `git
> submodule add' for this setup...

Libvirt uses .gnulib as the submodule's directory, but a single dot in
.gitmodules.  I guess if you hand-edit things after the fact, then it
just works.  But I don't know why 'git submodule add' doesn't have the
ability to name the submodule 'gnulib' even when the directory it is
stored in is named something else.

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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