Re: [PATCH] gitmodules: recurse by default

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 02:02:53PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 at 13:36, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > The most commmon complaint about submodules is that
> > they don't follow when one switches branches in the
> > main repo. Enable recursing into submodules by default
> > to address that.
> 
> Just to check, because the git docs are a bit unclear to me,
> does this retain the existing behaviour that if a submodule
> isn't checked out at all then it remains not-checked-out ?
> (That is, we don't want to force developers to have checked
> out submodule sources for all the edk2 and other rom blob
> sources which aren't needed for day-to-day QEMU development.)
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM


I think so - by default submodules are considered inactive,
git only recurses into active modules.
I just tried the following:

>git clone qemu qemu-tst
>cd qemu-tst
>ls -l $(grep submodule .gitmodules |sed -e 's/[^"]*"//' -e 's/".//')
dtc:
total 0

meson:
total 0

roms/edk2:
total 0

roms/ipxe:
total 0

roms/openbios:
total 0

roms/opensbi:
total 0

roms/qboot:
total 0

roms/QemuMacDrivers:
total 0

roms/qemu-palcode:
total 0

roms/seabios:
total 0

roms/seabios-hppa:
total 0

roms/sgabios:
total 0

roms/skiboot:
total 0

roms/SLOF:
total 0

roms/u-boot:
total 0

roms/u-boot-sam460ex:
total 0

roms/vbootrom:
total 0

slirp:
total 0

subprojects/libvfio-user:
total 0

tests/fp/berkeley-softfloat-3:
total 0

tests/fp/berkeley-testfloat-3:
total 0

tests/lcitool/libvirt-ci:
total 0

ui/keycodemapdb:
total 0


HTH

-- 
MST