From owner-freebsd-eclipse@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue Oct  8 06:04:33 2013
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-eclipse@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-eclipse@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org
 [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1])
 (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
 (No client certificate requested)
 by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4C3C8BF
 for <freebsd-eclipse@freebsd.org>; Tue,  8 Oct 2013 06:04:33 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org)
Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (nightmare.dreamchaser.org
 [12.32.44.142])
 (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
 (No client certificate requested)
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8123A2592
 for <freebsd-eclipse@freebsd.org>; Tue,  8 Oct 2013 06:04:33 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway.dreamchaser.org.
 [12.32.36.73])
 by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id r9864PfM004476
 for <freebsd-eclipse@freebsd.org>; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 00:04:25 -0600 (MDT)
 (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org)
Message-ID: <5253A069.9040705@dreamchaser.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:04:25 -0600
From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64;
 rv:17.0) Gecko/20130730 Thunderbird/17.0.7
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: freebsd-eclipse@freebsd.org
Subject: eclipse subprojects confusion
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2
 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.36.65]);
 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:04:25 -0600 (MDT)
X-BeenThere: freebsd-eclipse@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14
Precedence: list
Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org
List-Id: "FreeBSD users of eclipse EDI, tools, rich client apps &amp;
 ports." <freebsd-eclipse.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-eclipse>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-eclipse-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-eclipse>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-eclipse@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-eclipse-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-eclipse>,
 <mailto:freebsd-eclipse-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 06:04:33 -0000

after cloning the eclipse repo and then doing
  git checkout R4_2_maintenance
  git pull --recurse-submodules
the eclipse submodules are still empty.
i.e. the directory structure looks like:

  .../eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator
      .git
      .gitignore
      .gitmodules
      devutils
        description.txt
        submodule_pull_r42x.sh
      eclipse-platform-parent
        pom.xml
      eclipse.jdt                  (empty dir)
      eclipse.jdt.core             (empty dir)
      <...>
      pom.xml
      <...>

I see the submodule_pull_r42x.sh script that looks like it will populate the
subdirs, but shouldn't the --recurse-submodules do that?

I took a chance and did
  bash devutils/submodule_pull_r42x.sh
which failed with
  rt.equinox.incubator                no such file or directory
then created that subdir,
switched back to r4_2_maintenance
and tried again.

After apparently executing ok, the subdirs are still empty.
Any reason why all those
  cd eclipse.jdt.core ; git checkout R3_8_maintenance ; git pull ; cd ..
things apparently did nothing?

Are the subdirs all totally separate repositories which have to be separately 
set up in git?  Or do I need to manually set them up as submodules?
or???

New to git and the eclipse build structure so likely pretty confused...

Thanks,

Gary