From: Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@dfki.de>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:00:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] better git-submodule status output
Message-ID: <20080708080042.GB3628@joyeux>
In-Reply-To: <7v8wwd4kvb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:20:08AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Is it possible to make 'fetch' only .. well .. fetch objects, without
> > updating any refs?
> 
> By honestly saying "The superproject binds a commit you do not have
> locally at these paths", the user *can* choose *when* to go there and
> update, or have "git submodule update" command to that for him.
Agreed. The problem is that git submodule update does not only fetches
the new refs but *also* checks out the commit currently registered in
the superproject. Therefore git-submodule status *and* git-submodule
summary cannot tell you anything after a git-submodule update.

What I was missing is, given the current discussion, a git-submodule
fetch alike to what Avery was proposing, which fetches all submodules in
one command. Having to do the fetch/update manually for each submodule
is really cumbersome -- I have around 30 modules in the superproject.

Sylvain