Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Teach fetch and pull to recursively fetch submodules too

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 30, 2010, 05:58 UTC
Message-ID: <7vocckhcb6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C7A819B.3000403@web.de>

Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> writes:

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> So I extended the fetch command to fetch populated submodules too. I
> also added a command line option to fetch and pull and the second patch
> introduces a per submodule config option to give users the chance to
> control that behavior.
>
> And maybe we need a config option to customize that behavior
> for all submodules or all repos too?
>
> Opinions?

I think your "if a particular submodule is already initialized, recursing into it is more likely than not what the user wants" is a sound heuristic.

I am not sure what you mean by "all submodules" nor "all repos", though. In order to trigger the feature this series introduces, users have a means to initialize all submodules in one go (update --recursive --init), and wouldn't that be sufficient?