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

Subject: Re: [boost] [githelp] Relative submodule paths..
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-02-08 22:01:51

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Daniel James <dnljms_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> 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.
>

OK, good to know. But.. How does one do that? And.. Where do we have that
documented for users who want to do that?

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