Re: [PATCH] submodule: add --no-fetch parameter to update command

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 6, 2009, 18:01 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580902061001m6259d4ebt1c0dea7691b0a5dc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1233872312-17781-1-git-send-email-git@fabian-franz.de>

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 23:18, Fabian Franz <git@fabian-franz.de> wrote:

> git submodule update --no-fetch makes it possible to use git submodule
> update in complete offline mode by not fetching new revisions.

This is nice, but it would be even nicer IMHO if "submodule update" first tried to checkout the submodule commit and only if that failed would it try to fetch objects (before re-trying the checkout).

>  Documentation/git-submodule.txt |    7 ++++++-
>  git-submodule.sh                |   19 ++++++++++++++++---
>  2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Extending t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh would also be nice (either for --no-fetch or for a less fetchy "submodule update").

-- larsh