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From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] submodule+shallow clone feature request
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:10:07 -0500
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Schuyler Duveen <sky@columbia.edu> wro=
te:
> 2. Some way to specify an override on .gitmodules sources. =A0This is
> because our .gitmodules includes public, read-only sources (github),
> rather than our local repos we would prefer to deploy from (for the
> purpose of reliability).

You can already override this by editing .git/config after running
'git submodule init'.  Of course, doing so precludes using --recursive
in "git clone."

> I'm not well-versed in the git source code yet, but poking around
> suggests that this is doable. =A0Would a patch be well received (or d=
oes
> someone want to do it for me :-)

The git-submodule stuff is rarely maintained.  I expect patches that
improve it will meet with generally positive response, but it's
somewhat unlikely that anyone will write them for you.

Have fun,

Avery