From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 11:08:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.2-rc3
Message-ID: <8c5c35580705110408g7068e917lb672e1ac56f2c84c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1whnesyn.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 5/11/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Alexander Litvinov <litvinov2004@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I have tried your test and found that cloning such repo does not clone
> > subprojects. Only empty dir 'sub' is being cloned.
>
> Yes, that is pretty much intentional.  Having a link for higher
> layer tools can use (i.e. tree objects can contain 160000 mode
> "gitlinks" to subproject commit objects) while not considering
> such linkage part of the reachability is the whole point of
> plumbing level subproject support.  It allows people not to
> download repositories of uninteresting subprojects.  Higher
> layer tools such as clone/checkout/diff could be instructed
> (currently they cannot be, though) to recurse into subproject
> directories if the user wants to.

fwiw: I just released cgit 0.3, which includes a script
(submodules.sh) used to initialize, update and check status of
submodules. It uses the file .gitmodules to map between submodule path
and git repository url (cgit now uses git as a submodule).

You can clone the repo here:

  git://hjemli.net/pub/git/cgit

just look at the files here:

  http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/

--
larsh