From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:47:00 GMT
Subject: Re: ''git submodule sync'' should not add uninitialized submodules to .git/config
Message-ID: <7vhb7g2pbf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E039BA7.8060302@cisco.com>

Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com> writes:

> On 06/23/2011 10:35 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Now, when I run git submodule update, it starts checking out the third
>>> module and my workflow is broken.
>> See 33f072f (submodule sync: Update "submodule.<name>.url" for empty
>> directories, 2010-10-08), which introduced this behaviour.
>>
>> cmd_update considers anything that has submodule.<name>.url defined as
>> "the user is interested", so I suspect "git submodule sync" should not do
>> this.
>
> What about a compromise?  Change git-submodule-sync to skip submodules
> which are not already initialized.

You completely lost me. How's that different from reverting 33f072f? I do
not see a room for "compromise" here.