[Development] What's the magic incantation for developing effectively from the Qt git repo?

Nicolás Alvarez nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com
Fri Dec 6 03:45:49 CET 2013


2013/12/5 Chris Colbert <sccolbert at gmail.com>:
> In the broader sense, if the Gerrit only merges to 'stable' once the build
> succeeds and (presumably) tests pass, what's the reasoning behind not having
> qt5.git default the submodules to the 'stable' branch?

Git doesn't support making a submodule that points at "the stable
branch". Submodules always point to specific commit hashes. Maybe your
question is why the submodules aren't updated to the latest stable
more frequently?

-- 
Nicolás



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