Re: [boost] [git] eol issues and fetchRecurseSubmodules = on-demand

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] eol issues and fetchRecurseSubmodules = on-demand
From: Ahmed Charles (acharles_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-05 02:57:20

> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> From: dave_at_[hidden]
> Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 08:49:50 -0700
> Subject: Re: [boost] [git] eol issues and fetchRecurseSubmodules = on-demand
> 
> 
> on Fri Aug 02 2013, Ahmed Charles <acharles-AT-outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> > Two things:
> >
> > 1. tools\build\v2\engine\build.bat has LF instead of CRLF for line
> > endings, which causes bootstrap.bat (which has the right endings) to
> > not work properly. It seems like the top level .gitattributes doesn't
> > apply to submodules.
> 
> No it doesn't, but the .gitattributes file is also written into all the
> submodules.

Does this file have the right file endings for anyone else? (Is it my config or a general problem.)
 
> > 2. After cloning and fetching modular boost each day for a while, I
> > finally figured that waiting an hour or so to sync could probably be
> > improved. So I read the docs and tested adding fetchRecurseSubmodules
> > = on-demand for each submodule in .gitsubmodules 
> 
> I've never heard of .gitsubmodules.  I know .gitmodules, but as far as I
> know that file format doesn't accept syntax like the one you're
> describing.

I meant .gitmodules (typo on my part).

The docs are: http://git-scm.com/docs/gitmodules.html
Search for fetchRecurseSubmodules

> > and it seems to work much faster with the same result. (It would
> > result in differences once the submodules can change without the
> > super-project changing, but currently, I don't think that is the
> > case.) 
> 
> Yes, that's right.  The super-project gets a commit every time a
> submodule changes.
> 
> > Perhaps it's with considering?
> 
> How or where would I change it?

Each subsection of .gitmodules would look like:

[submodule "smart_ptr"]
    path = libs/smart_ptr
    url = http://github.com/boostorg/smart_ptr.git
    fetchRecurseSubmodules = on-demand

> -- 
> Dave Abrahams
> 
> 
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