From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:14:45 GMT
Subject: Re: using .gitmodule as default (was: git submodule init and redundant data in .gitmodules/.git/config)
Message-ID: <8c5c35580708170014i5af2da62w1dbcbad71430e26@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070815222907.GA7395@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

On 8/16/07, martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
> I have one open question though: why require init?

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