Re: git clone submodules recursive and reference

From: Samuel Maftoul <samuel.maftoul@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 20, 2012, 19:26 UTC
Message-ID: <CAFj+z04A5v7Cz=Wbqn_TBJQG88rPSfrs4T1=22x1N+v77ZXgYA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F91B22A.9000507@web.de>

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> Hmm, to me it looks like passing the --reference option to the clone
> run in the submodules doesn't make much sense, as that would make
> all submodules and the superproject use the same alternates. And as
> far as I know sharing objects between different repositories is not
> supported.

I'm sharing objects between repositories by creating a bare repository, adding the remotes for the repositories and fetch them in this bare repo. So for me, it makes sense to pass the "--reference" to the submodules clone, if submodules remotes are added to this reference bare repo and objects are already fetched (and I'm in this case, as I use a lot of different projects that shares the same set of submodules).

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>> How can I force the clones for submodules to be executed with the
>> --reference option ?
>
> You'd have to use "git clone" without the --recursive option and
> then do a "git submodule update --init --reference ...".

Yes, this should make it, but I would have been more happy with a single command !

Thanks Jens !