Re: RFC/Discussion - Submodule UX Improvements

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 20, 2021, 23:30 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq1rb4355h.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YH9drebF84mx2t5r@google.com>

Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> writes:

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> This is actually a point we discussed internally and I cut out of the
> doc before sharing, because it is very far down our roadmap (not
> expecting to address until probably the second half of the year). As I
> understand it, this can also be achieved today by setting
> 'submodule.path/to/module.active = false' in the superproject's
> .git/config.

Yeah, I think we also added support to choose which submodules can be "active" based on the attributes system.

Three are many ways to apply band-aid to a tree that should have been a monolithic single repository but has been split into many submodules only because we historically did not scale well. As you meantioned, sparse-checkout and lazy/partial cloning may change the picture drastically, not just "sparse" may allow such an "a set of artificially split out submodules" to be selectively populated, but more directly clone and work with only the parts you are interested in a monolithic repository.