From: Peter Kästle <peter.kaestle@nokia.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 09:43:34 GMT
Subject: Re: BUG in fetching non-checked out submodule
Message-ID: <168be31c-f913-4bda-cf05-adcc07c51ec8@nokia.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAN0XMOLHM0mFvXcdiXJS_yD59rSTuyJpp9N9MLvcZ5LCC1-yZA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Ralf,
On 03.12.20 10:38, Ralf Thielow wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Am Do., 3. Dez. 2020 um 09:20 Uhr schrieb Peter Kästle
> <peter.kaestle@nokia.com>:
>>> I can see the same misbehaviour when I run
>>> $ git -c submodule.recurse=false fetch --recurse-submodules
>>> too, so I think it doesn't have necessarily something to do with
>>> the 'submodule.recursive' config, but with 'recurse submodules'
>>> in general.
>> This is interesting.  There are several testcases using
>> "--recurse-submodules".  Have you tried, whether any of these trigger?
>>
> 
> The test suite passes.

This is what I experienced.  Thus it is important to get your case into 
the test suite.  Could you please send us a command sequence how to 
create your repository structure from scratch, so that a test case can 
be created?  - Of course, if you want, you can also create a test case 
on your own.

-- 
kind regards
--peter;