Re: [RFC] submodule+shallow clone feature request

> Schuyler Duveen <sky@columbia.edu> writes:
> 
> > My use case is deploying from a git repository, which would be even more
> > graceful with the following features:
> >
> > 1. When 'git clone' has both --recursive and --depth, then submodules
> > are also checked out shallow (for speed/bandwidth).
> >
> > 2. Some way to specify an override on .gitmodules sources.  This is
> > because our .gitmodules includes public, read-only sources (github),
> > rather than our local repos we would prefer to deploy from (for the
> > purpose of reliability).
> 
> These should be doable if you do not use --recursive, so I don't think 
> they are insurmountable issues.  I suspect many people would welcome 
> such enhancements to the "git submodule" potty.