Re: [PATCH] Install autoconf as a submodule to get m4sugar.

[Akim Demaille]

Le 21 déc. 08 à 14:02, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit :

> Hi Akim,

Hi Ralf,

> Somehow this change doesn't make me get the autoconf submodule; nor  
> do I
> get the gnulib submodule, but I happened to use --gnulib-srcdir  
> anyway.

But I also fail to properly "git add" the submodule itself.  I fixed  
that in the following change, which I hope you have too.

> As I haven't used submodules in git at all yet, I assume I'm just  
> missing
> something obvious, but in order to avoid others missing the same, I  
> suggest
> documenting whatever it takes to get them into README-hacking and  
> maybe also
> to <http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=56>.

Will do.  Can you just confirm that "git submodule update --init" does  
what you need?

Submodules are not as easy to use as svn externals, unfortunately.