Re: [RFC] Fourth round of support for cloning submodules

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 24, 2007, 19:25 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705242023240.4648@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580705241213y64f8ec5eg1f1afbdf25413769@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Lars Hjemli wrote:

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> On 5/24/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> > While I disagree with some design decisions Sven's series made,
> > I am happy that the series is there for people to comment on.
> > It helps us identify the design issues by making the differences
> > of opinion people have on them stand out.
> > 
> 
> Possibly offtopic: I'm not so sure there should be any --submodules or
> similar options to clone/fetch/checkout/merge/diff etc.
> 
> What I think would be nice is some porcelain support to manually init,
> update and see the checked out version of selected subprojects, but as
> standalone commands.

Yes, a la git-remote. I'd be much happier with that, too, especially since I think that this can be a relatively small and easy-to-review script. I really was intimidated by the long patch series, also because I thought that it shouldn't be that much work on top of what Linus did.

Ciao, Dscho

P.S.: Linus paid for his Caps Lock key, so he might as well use it.