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From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Initial support for cloning submodules
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 21:33:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070518193308.GJ942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vfy6cqk0w.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:52:15PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>  (3) "git-fetch --submodules", after finishing what it would do
>      without "--submodules" option, would inspect the fetched
>      tree (or the index derived from it), find the tree entries
>      with mode 160000 (i.e. submodule graft points), and _then_
>      uses the pathnames of these tree entries to consult the
>      config mechanism to see which URL(s) can be used to
>      retrieve them, probably only for new submodules.

I've gone for cloning all available submodules on the remote,
even if they are not used in the HEAD.
A submodule may have been removed already and IMHO, you wouldn't
want to clone a submodule at the time you reset to an intermediate
commit.

skimo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-18 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-04 10:56 Initial support for cloning submodules Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-04 10:56 ` [PATCH 1/5] Add dump-config Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-04 10:56 ` [PATCH 2/5] git-config: add --remote option for reading config from remote repo Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-04 21:03   ` Frank Lichtenheld
2007-05-04 21:10     ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-04 21:35       ` Frank Lichtenheld
2007-05-04 10:56 ` [PATCH 3/5] http.h: make fill_active_slots a function pointer Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-04 10:56 ` [PATCH 4/5] git-config: read remote config files over HTTP Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-04 10:56 ` [PATCH 5/5] git-clone: add --submodules for cloning submodules Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-04 22:52 ` Initial support " Junio C Hamano
2007-05-05  8:14   ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-05-05  8:46     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-06  4:13     ` Alon Ziv
2007-05-18 19:33   ` Sven Verdoolaege [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-04 10:49 Sven Verdoolaege

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