Re: [PATCH] clone: teach --single-branch and --branch during --recurse

[Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 03:19:00PM -0800, Emily Shaffer wrote:

Bah, in my attempt to keep the subject brief I was aiming to write
"--recursive" but instead just wrote "--recurse" which is wrong. I can
push another version with the fix if desired.

> Previously, performing "git clone --recurse-submodules --single-branch"
> resulted in submodules cloning all branches even though the superproject
> cloned only one branch. Pipe --single-branch and its friend, --branch,
> through the submodule helper framework to make it to 'clone' later on.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
> ---
> Note that 'branch' was already in use in git-submodules.sh, so
> "submodule branch" aka 'sm_branch' was used to disambiguate the two.
> 
>  Documentation/git-submodule.txt    |  6 +++++-
>  builtin/clone.c                    |  6 ++++++
>  builtin/submodule--helper.c        | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  git-submodule.sh                   | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
>  t/t5617-clone-submodules-remote.sh | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  5 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)