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Re: [PATCH] Install autoconf as a submodule to get m4sugar.
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Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Install autoconf as a submodule to get m4sugar. |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:20:38 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
* Akim Demaille wrote on Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 02:16:13PM CET:
> Le 21 déc. 08 à 14:02, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit :
>
>> Somehow this change doesn't make me get the autoconf submodule; nor do
>> I get the gnulib submodule, but I happened to use --gnulib-srcdir
>> anyway.
>
> But I also fail to properly "git add" the submodule itself. I fixed
> that in the following change, which I hope you have too.
Hmm, I only changed to git bison today, so I guess I should have all
those changes.
>> As I haven't used submodules in git at all yet, I assume I'm just
>> missing something obvious, but in order to avoid others missing the
>> same, I suggest documenting whatever it takes to get them into
>> README-hacking and maybe also to
>> <http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=56>.
>
> Will do. Can you just confirm that "git submodule update --init" does
> what you need?
That looks better. Is there however a way to avoid having duplicated
checked-out repos? I have git trees of Autoconf and Gnulib lying around
here, I don't necessarily want them another time. Should I just remove
those repos again and turn the directories into symlinks? If that is
ok, then maybe that could be documented as an alternative, too.
BTW, I should have been more explicit in the above: please fix the
savannah bison pages to not show the CVS tree for the code any more,
and let README-hacking point to the savannah git page for bison.
> Submodules are not as easy to use as svn externals, unfortunately.
Dunno, I've not needed the latter much either.
Thanks!
Ralf