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Re: [RFC] git-submodule: multiple-level modules definition

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LHLars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 3, 2008, 06:57 UTC
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On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
>  But why always
>  use git init even when we don't have the local configuration
>  requirement?

We need a way to tell git which of those submodules we are interested in, i.e. which submodules to clone/fetch during 'git submodule update'.

-- larsh

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