Re: [boost] Git: maintaining super-project

On 04.12.2013 12:53, Bjørn Roald wrote:

On 12/04/2013 08:39 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:

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On 04.12.2013 11:27, Cox, Michael wrote:

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On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:

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On 04.12.2013 10:28, Vladimir Prus wrote:

As far as I understand, you don't have to create pull requests for

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master and develop branches. The actual revision is pulled from submodules automatically as you check out the monolithic boost (the boostorg superproject). The pull requests might be needed during the release cycle, if you want specific last minute changes pulled by the release managers so that they get into release.

Well, the superproject has references to specific revisions of each component. Or am I mistaken on this part?

Looks like I'm not. I did this:

ghost@solid:~/Sources/boost-modular$ git checkout master M libs/program_options Switched to branch 'master' ghost@solid:~/Sources/boost-modular$ git submodule update --init Submodule path 'libs/program_options': checked out ' fb4f36f3eecbef1e3b4ace5b263e01d56e42d5c7'

This revision being checked out is what the current superproject repo specifies, which is 2 commits behind master of boostorg/program_options library.

So, yes, without pull request, or manual updates, or some scripting, checking out the superproject will not get either 'master' or 'develop' state of all libraries.

The following should get you what your asking for, if I understand you correctly:

git clone --recursive -b develop https://github.com/boostorg/boost

Let's assume that I've already did this, and others checked in more changes, in which case...

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git submodule foreach git checkout develop

... this command won't be sufficient, as you'd something like:

git submodule foreach git fetch

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I am probably confused as what you are trying to do,but I would simply do.

git checkout master git submodule update ... everything is master (svn branches/release)

Uhm, no. Everything is detached head corresponding to submodule references in superproject. Which means, again, that whatever I put to 'master' of my library is not ending up as part of regression tests, or next release, unless I also do additional dance, which is inconvenient for me, and extra work for those with write access to 'boost' superproject. - Volodya