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From: "Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com>
To: "martin f krafft" <madduck@madduck.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: using .gitmodule as default (was: git submodule init and redundant data in .gitmodules/.git/config)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:14:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c5c35580708170014i5af2da62w1dbcbad71430e26@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070815222907.GA7395@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

On 8/16/07, martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
> I have one open question though: why require init?

The purpose of 'init' is to inform git-submodule about which
submodules you want to checkout. E.g. for a project with submodules in
directories 'a', 'b' and 'c', you could do

$ git submodule init b c
$ git submodule update

This would only fetch/checkout the submodules in direcotories 'b' and
'c', while 'git submodule status' would still inform you that there is
actually three submodules available.

Note: If you wanted to initialize all three submodules at once, you
could simply do

$ git submodule init

--
larsh

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-17  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-15 16:20 git submodule init and redundant data in .gitmodules/.git/config martin f krafft
2007-08-15 16:38 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-15 22:29   ` using .gitmodule as default (was: git submodule init and redundant data in .gitmodules/.git/config) martin f krafft
2007-08-16 13:53     ` Josef Weidendorfer
2007-08-16 14:21       ` martin f krafft
2007-08-16 16:39         ` Josef Weidendorfer
2007-08-16 18:10       ` [PATCH] clarify need for init in git-submodules documentation martin f. krafft
2007-08-17  9:31         ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-17 10:08           ` martin f krafft
2007-08-17 10:36             ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-20  7:09               ` [PATCH] Clarify role of init command " martin f. krafft
2007-08-20  7:54                 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-21 18:02                   ` martin f krafft
2007-08-21 20:25                     ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-21 21:03                       ` martin f krafft
2007-08-22  8:30                         ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-22 13:48                           ` martin f krafft
2007-08-20 21:14                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-20  9:29           ` Not setting M-F-T, keeping people on Cc (was: [PATCH] clarify need for init in git-submodules documentation) martin f krafft
2007-08-17  7:14     ` Lars Hjemli [this message]

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