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

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] How the blazes are you supposed to update all the submodules?
From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-19 09:25:27

On 19 December 2013 14:11, Sergey Cheban <s.cheban_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 19.12.2013 17:32, Daniel James wrote:
>
>>> 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.