From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: sf Subject: Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:41:19 +0100 Message-ID: <4570AF8F.1000801@stephan-feder.de> References: <20061130170625.GH18810@admingilde.org> <457061A7.2000102@b-i-t.de> <200612012306.41410.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> Reply-To: sf-gmane@stephan-feder.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 22:41:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sf , git@vger.kernel.org, Martin Waitz Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060606) In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GqH4P-00065r-K6 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:41:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935586AbWLAWlX (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:41:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936545AbWLAWlX (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:41:23 -0500 Received: from mail.medianet-world.de ([213.157.0.167]:53722 "HELO mail.medianet-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S935586AbWLAWlW (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:41:22 -0500 Received: (qmail 4525 invoked by uid 1011); 1 Dec 2006 22:41:21 -0000 Received: from sf-gmane@stephan-feder.de by mail1 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (ExcuBAtor: 1.0.2. Clear:RC:1(213.157.24.137):SA:0(0.0/5.0):. Processed in 0.157834 secs); 01 Dec 2006 22:41:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx.stephan-feder.de) (213.157.24.137) by mail.medianet-world.de with SMTP; 1 Dec 2006 22:41:21 -0000 Received: from [192.168.3.69] (unknown [192.168.0.2]) by mx.stephan-feder.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 616D3964B4; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 23:41:20 +0100 (CET) To: Linus Torvalds Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: ... > In contrast, a submodule that we don't fetch is an all-or-nothing > situation: we simply don't have the data at all, and it's really a matter > of simply not recursing into that submodule at all - much more like not > checking out a particular part of the tree. If you do not want to fetch all of the supermodule then do not fetch the supermodule. Instead fetch only the submodules you are interested in. You do not have to fetch the whole repository. Regards