Re: Make "git checkout" automatically update submodules?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 23, 2015, 19:11 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq37x1pfhl.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kYMyU5h8uQkNEpMU558FgLrNM52_aQsXud6CrBAUgFSNA@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> Checkout [1]. There are lots of good patches, but hard to find.
> (Including, but not limited to a recursive git checkout enhancement!)
> ...
> [1] https://github.com/jlehmann/git-submod-enhancements/wiki

Yes, Jens is not just one of the people who have been working on harder, and thinking longer about, submodules than anybody else, but also has demonstrated that he has good taste and balanced view on the design of the subsystem over time, whose technical judgment we can trust.

Not all the changes listed on the page may necessarily be good as-is (e.g. some may help only a subset of users while hurting others, like the "recursively check-out everything unconditionally" that trigerred this thread), but the page has a good collection to remind anybody, who designs a coherent whole, of issues that need to be taken into account.

Thanks for a pointer to an excellent starting page.