[PATCH] fdo#42135: Appending a library functionality in Macro Programming missing or misdocumented

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 10/26/2012 04:48 PM, Petr Mladek wrote:
> Either my repo is broken or the steps described at
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Submodules#What_is_the_impact_for_developers_working_in_the_auxiliary_repositories_.3F
> are wrong. Well, the line:
>
> --- cut ---
>     push things using ./g push ./g push origin <my_branch>:maste
> --- cut ---
>
> sounds really strange. IMHO, ./g push ./g push is a non-sense.

Yeah, by the time I would have got hold of Norbert to ask him what he 
meant with that, I had already figured out enough of it on my own to get 
something that looks like it works.  For a commit whose content 
logically just affects helpcontent2, not also core, what I'd do is

   git submodule
     # sanity check, should display all submodules w/o leading
     # '+', '-', or 'U'
   cd helpcontent2
   git am ... # or whatever
   git push
   cd ..
   git status # should report helpcontent2 as dirty
   git commit -m 'Updated helpcontent2' helpcontent2
   git push

(Whether the commit/push in core is really necessary, or whether gerrit 
would do that automatically I'm not really sure, cf. 
<http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2012-October/040204.html> 
"[Libreoffice-commits] .: 5 commits [...]"  However, if it is not 
necessary, it should be harmless, as the then-necessary "git pull -r" 
would collapse the manual commit into gerrit's automatic one.)

Stephan