Re: using .gitmodule as default (was: git submodule init and redundant data in .gitmodules/.git/config)

On 8/16/07, martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:

The purpose of 'init' is to inform git-submodule about which submodules you want to checkout. E.g. for a project with submodules in directories 'a', 'b' and 'c', you could do

$ git submodule init b c $ git submodule update

This would only fetch/checkout the submodules in direcotories 'b' and 'c', while 'git submodule status' would still inform you that there is actually three submodules available.

Note: If you wanted to initialize all three submodules at once, you
could simply do

$ git submodule init

-- larsh