From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:04:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [WIP PATCH 4/4] Teach checkout-index to recursively checkout submodules
Message-ID: <7v8w8w1dwl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4BBF9ED3.9010502@web.de>

As a plumbing I would prefer to leave checkout-index as is; script writers
can choose to recurse if they choose to.

This is not limited to checkout-index, but what is the stance of this new
feature on failures from sub-checkout when there are local modifications
in the work tree?  Some parts of the work tree is checked out while the
ones after the failure that sorts later in the alphabetical order will not
be checked out, resulting in an inconsistent state (I am not saying that
it is good or bad---I am trying to see what the users should expect from
this new feature)?