From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
To: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why '--init' in git-submodule update
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 22:30:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121105213004.GA2797@book.hvoigt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC9WiBgpHWFGW-z5fnQR_EWnfGJUw+G3b7C6tYMGuVu1S-kP9A@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 05:30:51PM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote:
> I'm wondering why the --init option from git-submodule-update is not
> at least the defaut. Or even wilder, why this option exists at all and
> git-submodule-update always behave like --init was always passed.
That was a design decision. People may not be interested in all
submodules but just a subset they are working with. E.g. think of a
large media directory as a submodule the developers might not be
interested in having it around all the time because only the designers
are heavily working with it.
So the rationale is that you should ask for a certain submodule to be
initialized to get it. If there is demand for it we could of course think
about offering a config option in .gitmodules to allow enabling it by
default for some submodules.
Cheers Heiko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-05 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-05 16:30 why '--init' in git-submodule update Francis Moreau
2012-11-05 21:30 ` Heiko Voigt [this message]
2012-11-07 7:10 ` Francis Moreau
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