Re: [PATCH 06/15] git-read-tree: take --submodules option

From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: May 20, 2007, 21:50 UTC
Message-ID: <20070520215024.GD942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070520212404.GK5412@admingilde.org>

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:24:04PM +0200, Martin Waitz wrote:

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> hoi :)
> 
> what really is the motivation to suppress submodule checkout at this
> level?  I can see that we need some per-submodule option for checkout,
> but this should influence the actual checkout process and not
> read-tree.

It's only used with update is set.

> At least we really want to always update the index correctly and a
> read-tree --no-submodules  which updates the index for submodules but
> doesn't go into existing submodules just feels wrong.

It doesn't do that.

skimo

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