Thanks for the wiki page. One thing missing I noticed is what happens the next time you update your tree, after having checked out master (or a branch) in one of the submodules. Cheers, Simon On 23/03/2014 21:03, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
On 2014-03-23 at 19:53:55 +0100, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
Do us naïve users need to change our workflow with these submodule changes?
Probably yes... to some extent at least; that's why only haddock.git has been converted for now[1]: to find out empirically what's involved before continuing with the submodule-conversion.
I've tried to describe one possible workflow (for if you need to publish a modification to haddock.git) at
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions/Git/Submodules#Maki...
I hope it makes a bit of sense :-)
IMO, it's quite useful to familiarize oneself with the 'git submodule' family of commands, and especially 'git submodule' and 'git submodule summary', as those two introspection commands allow one to get a better picture in which state the currently cloned GHC working tree's submodules are.
[1]: OTOH, haddock.git is not the first/only proper Git submodule we have so far; so, in some way this isn't much of a change... _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs