[gst-devel] GIT test repositories

[Edward Hervey]

git submodule init
git submodule update

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 13:52 +0100, Jan Schmidt wrote:
> 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.