Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Add an update=none option for 'loose' submodules

From: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date: Jun 9, 2011, 18:06 UTC
Message-ID: <4DF10BB2.9050500@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1307374519.git.hvoigt@hvoigt.net>

Am 06.06.2011 22:57, schrieb Heiko Voigt:

> If a submodule is used to seperate some bigger parts of a project into
> an optional directory it is helpful to not clone/update them by default.

I think this is a good idea as some people are running "git submodule update --init --recursive" when they have to update their submodules. It would be nice to have an option to skip certain submodules then.

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> This series implements a new value 'none' for submodule.<name>.update.
> If this option is set a submodule will not be updated or cloned by
> default. If the user wants to work with the submodule he either needs
> to explicitely configure the update option to 'checkout' or pass
> --checkout as an option to the submodules. I chose this name to be
> consistent with the existing --merge/--rebase options.
> 
> What do you think about this approach?

It fits in nicely with my long term plan: Let the "update" flag control what happens on submodule checkout in the work tree. Another flag ("init"?) can be added later to control if a submodule should be initialized on clone or update, but that is outside the scope of this change.

> If we agree that this is the correct way to approach this use case I
> would proceed to implement tests and documentation.

+1 from me.