Re: Re: [RFC][Feature]

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 24, 2020, 07:29 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD2nfqRX6+xjRk=F1g+t9T=FgxQVsaNt+b+jW8XoYzuTDQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200320160813.9242-1-shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:08 PM Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com> wrote:

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> >    "We want submodule A and B's sub(sub)*modules all the way down
> >    to the leaf submodule, but directory C houses many submodules,
> >    among which only one can be active, and we want C/X and its
> >    sub(sub)*modules all the way down to the leaf but not C/Y nor
> >    C/Z or any other C/<anything>."
>
> That's a tough one. Would you advise developing the feature which may
> work atleast for the "normal" cases? In case it does not work for the
> aforementioned case and the like, we classify it as a BUG for further
> correction?

How are the other git-submodule sub-commands working with --recursive? Shouldn't --recursive work in the same way for all the sub-commands?