Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Teach fetch and pull to recursively fetch submodules too

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 9, 2010, 20:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20101009200232.GB19064@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <4CB0C279.8050407@web.de>

Jens Lehmann wrote:

> Am 07.10.2010 01:22, schrieb Jonathan Nieder:

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>>     I also
>> don't want to pay the penalty of fetching, say, git-gui when I don't
>> need it.
>
> I'm not sure I understand your setup, do you want to configure that for
> each remote or for each submodule?

Without thinking too hard about it, I imagine listing submodules in the [remote "foo"] stanza, just like I list branches there now.

> Because you can already do the latter
> with my patches. And configuring that via .gitmodules has the advantage
> that every clone inherits that setting

I certainly do _not_ want that property. Upstream can tell what submodules to check out by default, but aside from that, the choice of what to fetch has nothing to do with them.