Re: [RFC] Third round of support for cloning submodules

> Sven Verdoolaege, Sun, May 20, 2007 21:59:30 +0200:
> > > I am very worried about this big red switch that says "all
> > > subprojects to be cloned and checked out, or nothing".  I think
> > > this would not work well with projects that truly need
> > > superproject support (i.e. very large ones, where most people
> > > would not want to clone and check out every single subproject).
> > 
> > It's pretty easy to add a "submodule.*.skip" or "submodule.*.ignore".
> > Since the subcloning only happens at checkout, you could set these
> > before doing a checkout.
> 
> And set them back after doing the checkout?

> Me too. I actually believe it is the only way to do it. How can you
> checkout a subproject to something else (to what a branch may point)
> and to what the tree of superproject has? On the other side (in
> subproject) - why are you, the superproject, allowed to screw the
> references of the subproject?! It is independent, isn't it?!

> > >  - What would we do when the subproject working tree is not
> > >    clean?
> > 
> > I was planning on adding a --dry-run to git-checkout.
> > The superproject would run this in each subproject before
> > doing the actual checkout of the superproject.
> 
> Why not do exactly what we do now? Pass "-m" down to it, if it was
> given to the top-level git-checkout.