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

From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: May 21, 2007, 10:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20070521100146.GJ942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <4650EA2E.7070204@midwinter.com>

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:39:10PM -0700, Steven Grimm wrote:

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> Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> >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.
> >  
> 
> Can I take this to mean that you intend the default behavior to be to 
> check out all subprojects, with individual ones suppressed via 
> configuration as needed?

Or we could have a tri-state variable, with "yes" meaning handle the submodule, "no" don't, and undefined meaning do whatever is specified by the global submodules option. Explicitly checking out a submodule could then set the variable to "yes".

skimo

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