[gst-devel] GIT test repositories

[Jan Schmidt]

On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 15:34 +0200, Edward Hervey wrote:

> * Using common as a git submodule
>   git submodules are the natural way to share a module between several
> others. The problem was that we want to keep the coherence between
> checkouts of the parent module and common, so that if you check out a
> revision of core from a year ago, you will end up with the revision of
> common which was used at that time.
>   All converted git modules have therefore been re-parsed to contain
> those updates and the initial .gitmodules file that contains the link to
> which submodule to check out and where (currently pointing to where I
> stored the common repository).
>   > git checkout <acommit>
>   > git submodule update
>    # you will end up with common being in the state it was when
>    # <acommit> was done.
> 

I didn't have any luck with common/ - in each of core, base and -good
that I've tried so far, common/ is empty after cloning. I tried 'git
submodule update', and it stays empty.

Am I missing something?

J.
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Jan Schmidt <thaytan at noraisin.net>