From: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: maxime.viargues@serato.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] clone: remember references for submodules even when not recursing
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:12:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170420221255.GI142567@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170411194616.4963-3-sbeller@google.com>
On 04/11, Stefan Beller wrote:
> The commit 31224cbdc7 (clone: recursive and reference option triggers
> submodule alternates, 2016-08-17) argued for any further `submodule update`
> to respect the initial setup. This is not the case if you only pass
> '--reference[-if-able]' to the initial clone without instructing to
> recurse into submodules.
>
> If there are submodules however the user is likely to later run
> a 'submodule update --init' to obtain the submodules. In this case we
> also want to have the references available.
>
So the idea is to keep the references around even if the user doesn't
want to recurse immediately?
--
Brandon Williams
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-20 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-11 19:46 [PATCH 0/2] clone: record submodule alternates when not recursing Stefan Beller
2017-04-11 19:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] submodule.c: add has_submodules to check if we have any submodules Stefan Beller
2017-04-20 22:07 ` Brandon Williams
2017-04-20 22:20 ` Stefan Beller
2017-04-20 22:25 ` Brandon Williams
2017-04-11 19:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] clone: remember references for submodules even when not recursing Stefan Beller
2017-04-20 22:12 ` Brandon Williams [this message]
2017-04-20 22:28 ` Stefan Beller
2017-04-19 19:52 ` [PATCH 0/2] clone: record submodule alternates " Stefan Beller
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