Re: [RFC] submodule+shallow clone feature request

From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 10, 2010, 22:10 UTC
Message-ID: <32541b131002101410j3c256dbeg9aa8bacde99886bb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B73277C.9010801@columbia.edu>

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Schuyler Duveen <sky@columbia.edu> wrote:

> 2. Some way to specify an override on .gitmodules sources.  This is
> because our .gitmodules includes public, read-only sources (github),
> rather than our local repos we would prefer to deploy from (for the
> purpose of reliability).

You can already override this by editing .git/config after running 'git submodule init'. Of course, doing so precludes using --recursive in "git clone."

> I'm not well-versed in the git source code yet, but poking around
> suggests that this is doable.  Would a patch be well received (or does
> someone want to do it for me :-)

The git-submodule stuff is rarely maintained. I expect patches that improve it will meet with generally positive response, but it's somewhat unlikely that anyone will write them for you.

Have fun,

Avery