From: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
To: Maarten Billemont <lhunath@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ''git submodule sync'' should not add uninitialized submodules to .git/config
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:39:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E03421E.1000208@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0D2618D7-0681-4E71-B412-36D490D45B9D@gmail.com>
On 06/23/2011 07:13 AM, Maarten Billemont wrote:
> When I initialize 2/3 submodules of my git repository and do git submodule update, all is fine: Only the 2 submodules that I need are updated.
>
> When I run a git submodule sync to update the URLs that may have been changed in .gitmodules, it ADDS the URL of the submodule that was NOT initialized, thus "initializing" it.
>
> Now, when I run git submodule update, it starts checking out the third module and my workflow is broken.
>
> git submodule sync should not add entries to .git/config, only update existing ones.--
Maarten,
Is it enough to similarly limit 'submodule sync' the same way you did
with 'submodule init'? Like this:
git submodule sync -- A B
From 'git help submodule':
"git submodule sync" synchronizes all submodules while "git submodule
sync — A" synchronizes submodule "A" only.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-23 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-23 11:13 ''git submodule sync'' should not add uninitialized submodules to .git/config Maarten Billemont
2011-06-23 13:39 ` Phil Hord [this message]
2011-06-23 14:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-23 19:14 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-06-23 22:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-23 23:10 ` Andreas Köhler
2011-06-24 6:17 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-06-24 4:13 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2011-06-24 6:20 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-06-25 23:26 ` [PATCH] submodule add: always initialize .git/config entry Jens Lehmann
2011-06-30 0:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-25 20:41 ` [PATCH v2] submodule sync: do not auto-vivify uninteresting submodule Jens Lehmann
2011-06-23 20:01 ` ''git submodule sync'' should not add uninitialized submodules to .git/config Phil Hord
2011-06-23 21:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-23 23:06 ` Phil Hord
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