Re: [PATCH] Clarify role of init command in git-submodules documentation

From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Aug 22, 2007, 13:48 UTC
Message-ID: <20070822134825.GA14589@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070822083032.GN1070MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>

also sprach Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> [2007.08.22.1030 +0200]:

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> > > I suppose this is implicit in the git submodule man page,
> > > but this is only true if you actually want to use git submodule to
> > > work with the submodules.
> >
> I meant that the rest of my sentence could probably be
> implicitly understood.

Ah. Okay, well, I'd say since this is the git-submodule manpage, we can assume that they want to work with git-submodule.

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> > Is it? I tried this and after cloning a repo with submodules, it
> > created the submodule directories alright, but it did not
> > actually check them out/populate them, so they were empty.
> 
> Some people have been doing this manually or have homegrown
> scripts. Not that you should mention those options here.

Ok.

> > You're missing something like "... unless the submodule is already
> > registered, in which case it won't be overwritten", right?
> 
> Something like that, yes.

Consider it done. Patch forthcoming, though probably not tonight, I also want to give others more time to comment.

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