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Subject: Re: [boost] Submodule name mismatches between master and develop
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-08-04 17:11:36


On 8/4/2017 8:44 AM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Several submodules have different names on master and develop:
>
> - compute (libs/compute on develop)
> - couroutine2 (libs/coroutine2 on develop)
> - dll (libs/dll on develop)
> - qvm (libs/qvm on develop)
> - vmd (libs/vmd on develop)
>
> Should we normalize the names on develop?

Yes.

>
> I think that after fixing .gitmodules, these submodules will appear
> as-if deinitialized, and would need a `git submodule update --init` to
> reappear under the new names.

Agreed.

>
> There are also libs/hana and libs/metaparse, which have consistent
> (although "wrong") names on both master and develop. Not sure if we need
> to bother with them.

I think we should and all submodules should be normalized under their
short name and not with libs/ preceding it.


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