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git submodule update strange output behavior.

From
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>
Date
Jan 9, 2020, 18:20 UTC
Message-ID
<20200109192040.46aaa01e@hikaru>

In a project containing submodules, one of the submodules contains a submodule itself, which in turn also contains a submodule.

Overview:

project/foobar [submodule] project/cwm4 [submodule] project/evio [submodule] project/evio/protocol/matrixssl [submodule] project/evio/protocol/matrixssl/cwm4 [submodule]

('protocol' is a normal subdirectory)
Running (with or without the --quiet),

$ git submodule --quiet update --init --recursive --remote Fetching submodule protocol/matrixssl Fetching submodule protocol/matrixssl/cwm4 Fetching submodule cwm4

This is odd (a bug imho) because
1) it seems to only print this fetching information for submodules inside submodules,
not for the top-level submodules.
2) it even prints this when using --quiet
3) it prints this every time (also when there is nothing more to fetch).
-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>
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