Re: [boost] [git] How the blazes are you supposed to update all the submodules?

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Daniel James wrote:

On 19 December 2013 14:11, Sergey Cheban wrote:

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On 19.12.2013 17:32, Daniel James wrote:

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When you pull the superproject, it only checks out the submodules at the specific revision that, I believe, is updated manually now by someone with the write access to the superproject.

I have a script which updates it, but I'm running it manually as it's not quite ready to be a cron job. If it's not too much for the server it should be updating automatically soon.

May be, it is better to use github's service hooks instead of cron to initiate the update?

https://help.github.com/articles/post-receive-hooks

Maybe, but it would introduce concurrency issues (if two modules are pushed to in quick succession). If I get it working in a cron job, I can think about hooks later. FWIW I am using a hook to update the website.

Once you have more than one git repository (superproject and submodules), by definition, you *will* have concurrency issues no matter how you do it. It's just the size of the window of vulnerability you can try to minimize. Michael