From: Kaartic Sivaraam Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 16:01:26 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] Doc/gitsubmodules: specify how submodules help in reduced size Message-ID: <3d85256e-4f19-b9d6-323a-d683dbfd8cf7@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Tuesday 09 January 2018 12:08 AM, Stefan Beller wrote: >> diff --git a/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt >> index cb795c6b6..3f73983d5 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt >> @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ Submodules can be used for at least two different use cases: >> * Transfer size: >> In its current form Git requires the whole working tree present. It >> does not allow partial trees to be transferred in fetch or clone. >> + If you have your project as multiple repositories tied together as >> + submodules in a superproject, you can avoid fetching the working >> + trees of the repositories you are not interested in. > > You do not fetch a working tree, but a whole repository? > Maybe I misunderstood submodules when I wrote that example. Could you help out with a better and precise replacement? Just putting in some context as to why I did this change, I thought this was the only thing that lacked an example and wanted to make it consistent. -- Kaartic