From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:46:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git submodule when submodule is not a clone of a repository
Message-ID: <8c5c35580801180946q3ba824e2s4c32ac504166c684@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20080118T171433-93@post.gmane.org>

On Jan 18, 2008 6:25 PM, Sergio Callegari <sergio.callegari@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would it make sense to have a git submodule update not try to fetch if there is
> no url defined, but still checkout the right commit for the submodule (rather
> than skipping the submodule at all) ?

Actually, we could (and probably should) teach git-submodule not to
fetch if the requested SHA1 is already available in the submodule, and
I guess this would solve the problem quite nicely for your usage.

But that will probably not happen before 1.5.4.

--
larsh