From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:02:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v3 3/3] archive.c: add basic support for submodules
Message-ID: <8c5c35580901241202k5ed436d7y2fafded2f0883c48@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901242049580.14855@racer>

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 20:52, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Lars Hjemli wrote:
>
>> $ git archive --submodules <tree-ish>: Create an archive which
>> includes the trees of all gitlink entries in <tree-ish>, fail unless
>> all the required objects are available.
>>
>> $ git archive --submodules=<group>: Same as above, but only traverse
>> submodules in the specified group (as defined in $GIT_CONFIG).
>
> How about having the former with --submodules='*' and let --submodules
> without argument include those submodules that are checked out (none in a
> bare repository)?

Yeah, that might make more sense (since you'd normally not have access
to the content of non-checked out submodules). I'm also considering
something like --submodules[=(all|checkedout|[group:]<name>)], i.e.
the 'group:'-part could be optional as long as <name> is unambiguous.

--
larsh