[IPython-dev] submodules over https

[MinRK]

actual problem hit immediately, changing the PR to just use `https:`
instead of `git:`


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:48 AM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe I am overestimating how many users actually want IPython to be
> installable from their own fork, rather than only ever being valid after
> merging into master.  I don't mean to say that maintaining separate
> `components` is difficult, but it is tedious and unintuitive.
>
> Let's give relative URL a shot for now, and revisit the issue if there are
> actual problems (not counting the one I ran into when trying to write
> exactly this PR).
>
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:42 AM, W. Trevor King <wking at tremily.us> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 06:15:11PM +0100, Aron Ahmadia wrote:
>> > Just wanted to point out that I found out how to use submodules from
>> > your pull request to pycuda.  Thanks!
>>
>> Glad to help :).
>>
>> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 10:28:51AM -0700, MinRK wrote:
>> > Mirroring is a better case, since it shouldn't actually affect the
>> > repo.  But it seems pretty terrible that under normal circumstances,
>> > no clone of any IPython repo other than the official one or a proper
>> > careful mirror will actually be functional.
>>
>> I think “proper careful mirror” is a bit alarmist ;).  If it's just a
>> single level of submodules (and it's currently just a single
>> `components` submodule), all you have to do is mirror the submodules
>> at the same place.  For me:
>>
>>   $ cd /var/git
>>   $ git clone git://github.com/ipython/ipython.git
>>   $ git clone git://github.com/ipython/ipython-components.git
>>
>> Working mirror complete ;).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Trevor
>>
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