Re: [boost] [githelp] Relative submodule paths..

Subject: Re: [boost] [githelp] Relative submodule paths..
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-02-08 18:20:57

On 8 February 2015 at 22:44, John Bytheway <jbytheway+boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 2015-02-06 16:25, Rene Rivera wrote:
>> I've been trying to clean out the pull requests for the boost super-project
>> and I ran into this one <https://github.com/boostorg/boost/pull/33>. And I
>> don't really know if it makes sense, as I have personally not done a fork
>> of the super-project.
>>
>> Is it a real problem? Should we change all the sub-project references? If
>> yes, what are the likely impacts on others and existing release processes?
>
> This issue annoyed me when I forked the super project.  I'm slightly
> surprised that the proposed fix works, but if it does, then it seems
> reasonable and unlikely to break anything that was previously working...

There's no need to change the submodule paths, all you have to do is
set the super-project's origin to point to boostorg/boost. The pull
request will prevent anyone from using a different location for the
submodules.