From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Casey Fitzpatrick <kcghost@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-submodule is missing --dissociate option
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:16:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACBZZX4NMJE0kcgb0aB0z3X6yGhL8VJVx6V3tYfA3socbjTQfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEp-SHXXwtgDb=bzTmT88aPQ267ANLCN6S3teC4hjHYDL9NQ3Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Casey Fitzpatrick <kcghost@gmail.com> wrote:
> It also seems to be missing "--progress", and I imagine others.
> Perhaps submodule add/update should be reworked to automatically
> accept all the options that clone would?
--progress is not missing, but I see that it isn't documented. It was
added in 72c5f88311 ("clone: pass --progress decision to recursive
submodules", 2016-09-22). What you're suggesting makes sense, but as
shown in that commit it's not easy for it to happen automatically,
there's a lot of boilerplate involved.
But since you're interested you can see how to add new options with
that patch, it should be easy for anyone not experienced with the
codebase, it's all just boilerplate + adding a test.
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 4:29 AM, Casey Fitzpatrick <kcghost@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This seems to be a hole in the git feature set. I believe it is fairly
>> easily worked around, but it would be best to provide the option for
>> ease of use (and maybe performance?).
>>
>> git clone has both a --reference feature and a --dissociate option,
>> with dissociate allowing for a reference to *only* speed up network
>> transfers rather than have the resulting clone rely upon the reference
>> always being there (creates an independent repo).
>> But git submodule only allows for --reference, so there isn't a an
>> option to make a speedy independent submodule clone in one shot:
>> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-submodule
>> I checked the latest online documentation (currently at 2.16.3) and
>> the documentation in the latest sources (almost 2.18):
>> https://github.com/git/git/blob/next/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
>>
>> As far as I am aware this can be worked around with 'git repack -a'
>> and manual removal of the objects/info/alternates file afterward.
>> Though I don't know if this results in a less speedy clone than
>> dissociate would.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-30 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-30 8:29 git-submodule is missing --dissociate option Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-04-30 11:30 ` Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-04-30 13:16 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2018-05-02 4:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-30 18:19 ` Stefan Beller
2018-04-30 21:39 ` Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-01 18:09 ` [PATCH 0/2] Add --progress and --dissociate to git submodule Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-01 18:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] submodule: Add --progress option to add command Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-01 18:41 ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-01 20:48 ` Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-01 18:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] submodule: Add --dissociate option to add/update commands Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-01 20:23 ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-01 20:25 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-05-01 21:21 ` Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-01 18:20 ` [PATCH 0/2] Add --progress and --dissociate to git submodule Stefan Beller
2018-05-02 0:27 ` [PATCH 0/3] " Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-02 0:27 ` [PATCH 1/3] submodule: clean up subsititions in script Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-02 0:27 ` [PATCH 2/3] submodule: add --progress option to add command Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-02 0:27 ` [PATCH 3/3] submodule: add --dissociate option to add/update commands Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-02 0:40 ` Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-02 0:55 ` [PATCH 0/3] Add --progress and --dissociate to git submodule Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-02 0:55 ` [PATCH 1/3] submodule: clean up subsititions in script Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-02 5:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-03 10:46 ` Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-02 0:55 ` [PATCH 2/3] submodule: add --progress option to add command Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-02 0:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] submodule: add --dissociate option to add/update commands Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-02 4:37 ` [PATCH 0/3] Add --progress and --dissociate to git submodule Junio C Hamano
2018-05-02 8:54 ` Casey Fitzpatrick
2018-05-02 4:34 ` git-submodule is missing --dissociate option Junio C Hamano
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