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Re: [PATCH 0/6] Teach fetch/pull the on-demand mode and make it the default

From
Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date
Feb 23, 2011, 23:48 UTC
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Am 24.02.2011 00:21, schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
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> Jens Lehmann wrote:
> 
>> *) The fetch is only done when the recorded submodule commit isn't
>>    already present.
> 
> I like this part a lot.
Glad to hear ;-)
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>> I tend to think that this is suited for 1.7.5 but don't have any
>> objections against holding it back until 1.8.0 either. What do
>> others think?
> 
> I see no backward-compatibility to wait for this, but I would be more
> included to trust people using "git submodule update" heavily than I
> do.
Yeah, I would appreciate some feedback here too.
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> The "submodule update" change could cause the following to break.
> Would that be disruptive?
> 
> 	cd submodule
> 	git fetch --no-recurse-submodules
> 	...
> 
> 	cd ..
> 	bin/script-to-update-submodules-that-calls-submodule-update

But then "git submodule update" would notice that the commit isn't present and do a "git fetch" itself, no?

Previous: Jonathan Nieder
Message 23 of 23 in “Teach fetch/pull the on-demand mode and make it the default”
  1. 0/6 Teach fetch/pull the on-demand mode and make it the defaultJens Lehmann, Feb 23, 2011
  2. 1/6 fetch/pull: recurse into submodules when necessaryJens Lehmann, Feb 23, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2011
  4. Jens LehmannFeb 23, 2011
  5. Jonathan NiederFeb 24, 2011
  6. Jonathan NiederFeb 23, 2011
  7. Jens LehmannFeb 23, 2011
  8. Jonathan NiederFeb 23, 2011
  9. 2/6 fetch/pull: Add the 'on-demand' value to the --recurse-submodules optionJens Lehmann, Feb 23, 2011
  10. Jonathan NiederFeb 23, 2011
  11. Jonathan NiederFeb 23, 2011
  12. 3/6 config: teach the fetch.recurseSubmodules option the 'on-demand' valueJens Lehmann, Feb 23, 2011
  13. 4/6 Submodules: Add 'on-demand' value for the 'fetchRecurseSubmodule' optionJens Lehmann, Feb 23, 2011
  14. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2011
  15. Jens LehmannFeb 24, 2011
  16. 5/6 fetch/pull: Don't recurse into a submodule when commits are already presentJens Lehmann, Feb 23, 2011
  17. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2011
  18. Jens LehmannFeb 23, 2011
  19. Jens LehmannFeb 24, 2011
  20. 6/6 submodule update: Don't fetch when the submodule commit is already presentJens Lehmann, Feb 23, 2011
  21. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2011
  22. Jonathan NiederFeb 23, 2011
  23. Jens LehmannFeb 23, 2011

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