From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 00:31:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] Doc/gitsubmodules: specify how submodules help in reduced size
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSh=Hv7x1J8nydSrbgbaLR+JLhXMqpR42a0+m=OgL59JQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180106184614.20115-4-kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Kaartic Sivaraam
<kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt
> @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ Submodules can be used for at least two different use cases:
>      * Transfer size:
>        In its current form Git requires the whole working tree present. It
>        does not allow partial trees to be transferred in fetch or clone.
> +      If you have your project as multiple repositories tied together as
> +      submodules in a superproject, you can avoid fetching the working
> +      trees of the repositories you are not interested in.

"If your project consists of multiple repositories tied together..."