From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:33:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Submodules: Add the new "fetch" config option for fetch and pull
Message-ID: <AANLkTikUdNdDDK9-+AjuSO_RJHNBZEp5mHPRnsV0Fo0v@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4CAB8E33.1030208@web.de>

> The .gitmodules file is parsed for "submodule.<name>.fetch" entries before
> looking for them in .git/config. Thus settings found in .git/config will
> override those from .gitmodules, thereby allowing the local developer to
> ignore settings given by the remote side while also letting upstream set
> defaults for those users who don't have special needs.
>

I wonder if the name is a little too general for the function of this
configuration variable and if it might not be better to qualify it a
little further, perhaps
with the recursive suffix, e.g.:

    submodule.<name>.fetch.recursive

This would allow us to define other attributes that configure fetch on
a per submodule basis later should the need arise.

jon.