Re: [PATCH] - Added recurse command to git submodule

["Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com>]

On Jan 9, 2008 9:38 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I am not still convinced that a subcommand other than init,
> which is started recursively, should initialize and update
> submodules that are uninitialized.

I very much agree; this behaviour would break the current 'usage model'.

> I suspect that it might be a saner approach to:
>
>  - allow "git submodule recurse init [-d depth]" (although I am
>    not sure if limit by depth is so useful in practice -- only
>    experience will tell us) to auto-initialize the uninitialized
>    submodules;

A possible extension is to specifiy "inter-submodule" paths to the
init subcommand, i.e. for a possible KDE layout:
  git submodule -r init kdelibs kdelibs/admin

This should then recursively initialize the kdelibs submodule and the
admin-submodule (in the kdelibs submodule).

Btw: from my reading of the code, the git-command specified for
'recurse' will be done top-to-bottom: I guess that's what you want for
something like 'git submodule recurse diff', but not for something
like 'git submodule recurse commit' (but IMHO the latter one should
never be executed ;-)

--
larsh