From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:10:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Re: git submodule -b ... of current HEAD fails
Message-ID: <20101203071037.GA18202@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <4CF80B71.3010309@web.de>

Jens Lehmann wrote:
> Am 01.12.2010 19:50, schrieb Jonathan Nieder:

>>                                  Jens, any idea why git submodule
>> is not using "clone --branch" directly?
>
> Nope, these lines date back to the time before I got involved in the
> submodule business ... Seems like this "git checkout" was added in
> March 2008 by Mark Levedahl (CCed), maybe he can shed some light on
> that.

Ah, so the problem is that "clone --branch" did not exist.  Sorry for
the noise.

Another question can be also be easily answered by history examination:
the series of checks in module_clone are because 70c7ac22d:git-clone.sh
did not have checks of its own for the target directory.

So there is some simplification within grasp.

'night,
Jonathan