From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 19:33:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Initial support for cloning submodules
Message-ID: <20070518193308.GJ942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vfy6cqk0w.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:52:15PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>  (3) "git-fetch --submodules", after finishing what it would do
>      without "--submodules" option, would inspect the fetched
>      tree (or the index derived from it), find the tree entries
>      with mode 160000 (i.e. submodule graft points), and _then_
>      uses the pathnames of these tree entries to consult the
>      config mechanism to see which URL(s) can be used to
>      retrieve them, probably only for new submodules.

I've gone for cloning all available submodules on the remote,
even if they are not used in the HEAD.
A submodule may have been removed already and IMHO, you wouldn't
want to clone a submodule at the time you reset to an intermediate
commit.

skimo