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Description: An example of how git submodules work. See the blog post for more info.
Homepage: http://daniel.collectiveidea.com/blog/2008/4/12/git-submodules-part-2
Clone URL: git://github.com/danielmorrison/submodule_example.git
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Added Rails as a submodule, as you typically would in a Rails app.
danielmorrison (author)
Sat Apr 12 10:39:26 -0700 2008
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+[submodule "vendor/rails"]
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+	path = vendor/rails
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+	url = git://github.com/rails/rails.git

Comments

  • danielmorrison Sat Apr 12 11:09:14 -0700 2008 at vendor/rails L0

    This is the magic. How git knows what revision the submodule is supposed to be.

  • rmm5t Sat Apr 12 17:08:07 -0700 2008 at vendor/rails L0

    Wicked. That helps explain it all.