Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Teach fetch and pull to recursively fetch submodules too

> Jens Lehmann wrote:
>> Am 07.10.2010 01:22, schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
> 
>>>     I also
>>> don't want to pay the penalty of fetching, say, git-gui when I don't
>>> need it.
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand your setup, do you want to configure that for
>> each remote or for each submodule?
> 
> Without thinking too hard about it, I imagine listing submodules in
> the [remote "foo"] stanza, just like I list branches there now.

>> Because you can already do the latter
>> with my patches. And configuring that via .gitmodules has the advantage
>> that every clone inherits that setting
> 
> I certainly do _not_ want that property.  Upstream can tell what
> submodules to check out by default, but aside from that, the choice of
> what to fetch has nothing to do with them.