From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:22:43 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Teach fetch and pull to recursively fetch submodules too Message-ID: <20101006232243.GA30302@burratino> In-Reply-To: Kevin Ballard wrote: > After thinking on it a bit, I think the best solution is to add a switch > --submodules to fetch which will also fetch all submodules, but otherwise > fetch will fetch no submodules. For what it's worth, for my (odd) use cases, what would be most practical is [remote "foo"] fetch = ... submodules = ... I could care less about the defaults. :) Rationale: I shouldn't have to explicitly use --submodules to get everything I need to hack before dropping connectivity, but I also don't want to pay the penalty of fetching, say, git-gui when I don't need it.