<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 00:52 +0100, Arnaud Fontaine wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Hi, > Hi, I mean this in .gitmodules: > [submodule "m4"] > path = m4 > url = ../util-common-m4.git > instead of: > [submodule "m4"] > path = m4 > url = git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xcb/util-common-m4 Yes, it is relative on purpose. There are several reasons for this, such as being easier for developers (you may want to write code for util-common-m4 and test it in util-wm </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> A relative url neither helps nor hinder. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> or publish your own util-common-m4 somewhere along with util, </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> No url will be able to point at 2 different repos with the same name. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> without modifying .gitsubmodules) and you may not want to use git protocol. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Why would you not want to use a git url? This is what all modules use. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Also, as Gaetan pointed out, if a developer wants to make a copy of util repository on people.fdo, then he will have to copy util-common-m4 as well but I don't really think that's really an issue. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Not a big issue, it's done rarely. I don't see any benefits in using a relative url and a minor issue when cloning a containing repo using the submodule. Was the relative url typed in or create by the "git submodule add" command? It just doesn't "feel" right. I can't find anything really bad about it yet, but I surprised you found "several reasons" for choosing it. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Cheers, -- Arnaud Fontaine _______________________________________________ Xcb mailing list <A HREF="mailto:Xcb@lists.freedesktop.org">Xcb@lists.freedesktop.org</A> <A HREF="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xcb">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xcb</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>