Re: [PATCH 09/16] entry.c: optionally checkout submodules

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: May 18, 2007, 21:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20070518215642.GC10475@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <1179516307425-git-send-email-skimo@liacs.nl>

skimo@liacs.nl, Fri, May 18, 2007 21:24:58 +0200:

> +	if (err)
> +		return error("failed to run git-checkout in submodule '%s'", path);

We may need an option to ignore these failures. Maybe even active by default. Imagine a superproject with _optional_ submodules, where it is just nice to know that some submodules weren't checked out. BTW, doesn't git-checkout already prints an error?

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