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Re: [PATCH 2/2] clone: remember references for submodules even when not recursing

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BWBrandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Date
Apr 20, 2017, 22:12 UTC
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<20170420221255.GI142567@google.com>
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<20170411194616.4963-3-sbeller@google.com>
On 04/11, Stefan Beller wrote:
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> The commit 31224cbdc7 (clone: recursive and reference option triggers
> submodule alternates, 2016-08-17) argued for any further `submodule update`
> to respect the initial setup. This is not the case if you only pass
> '--reference[-if-able]' to the initial clone without instructing to
> recurse into submodules.
> 
> If there are submodules however the user is likely to later run
> a 'submodule update --init' to obtain the submodules. In this case we
> also want to have the references available.
>

So the idea is to keep the references around even if the user doesn't want to recurse immediately?

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Brandon Williams
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Message 7 of 9 in “clone: record submodule alternates when not recursing”
  1. 0/2 clone: record submodule alternates when not recursingStefan Beller, Apr 11, 2017
  2. 1/2 submodule.c: add has_submodules to check if we have any submodulesStefan Beller, Apr 11, 2017
  3. Brandon WilliamsApr 20, 2017
  4. Stefan BellerApr 20, 2017
  5. Brandon WilliamsApr 20, 2017
  6. 2/2 clone: remember references for submodules even when not recursingStefan Beller, Apr 11, 2017
  7. Brandon WilliamsApr 20, 2017
  8. Stefan BellerApr 20, 2017
  9. Stefan BellerApr 19, 2017

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