From: Mara Kim <mara.kim@vanderbilt.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Paper cut bug: Why isn't "git clone xxxx" recursive by default?
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 17:24:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJdEhSbo_-s7T9Mu=sM+-60s8t28NDogoA36xJoZowwU3hErOg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqoay9wvo6.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
That is good to hear. I would be pretty happy about that. ^.^
Obviously any major changes will need to be done carefully. I was
thinking of the way that you guys introduced new defaults for Git 2.0,
phasing them in slowly through the 1.x cycle. Maybe I can get my
hopes up for Git 3.0 --- 9 years from now :P
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Mara Kim <mara.kim@vanderbilt.edu> writes:
>>
>>> Apologies if this question has been asked already, but what is the
>>> reasoning behind making git clone not recursive (--recursive) by
>>> default?
>>
>> The primary reason why submodules are separate repositories is not
>> to require people to have everything. Some people want recursive,
>> some others don't, and the world is not always "majority wins" (not
>> that I am saying that majority will want recursive).
>>
>> Inertia, aka backward compatibility and not surprising existing
>> users, plays some role when deciding the default.
>>
>> Also, going --recursive when the user did not want is a lot more
>> expensive mistake to fix than not being --recursive when the user
>> wanted to.
>
> Having said all that, I do not mean to say that I am opposed to
> introduce some mechanism to let the users express their preference
> between recursive and non-recursive better, so that "git clone"
> without an explicit --recursive (or --no-recursive) can work to
> their taste. A configuration in $HOME/.gitconfig might be a place
> to start, even though that has the downside of assuming that the
> given user would want to use the same settings for all his projects,
> which may not be the case in practice.
>
--
Mara Kim
Ph.D. Candidate
Computational Biology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-03 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-03 18:11 Paper cut bug: Why isn't "git clone xxxx" recursive by default? Mara Kim
2014-06-03 19:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-03 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-03 22:24 ` Mara Kim [this message]
2014-06-04 9:30 ` [RFC PATCH] clone: add clone.recursesubmodules config option Chris Packham
2014-06-04 17:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-04 19:06 ` Jens Lehmann
2014-06-05 18:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-05 18:43 ` W. Trevor King
2014-06-06 5:26 ` Heiko Voigt
2017-08-02 18:11 ` Jeremy Morton
2017-08-02 20:34 ` Stefan Beller
2014-06-04 19:42 ` Heiko Voigt
2014-06-05 7:48 ` Chris Packham
2014-06-06 5:54 ` Heiko Voigt
2014-06-06 16:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-09 13:17 ` Jens Lehmann
2014-06-09 23:27 ` W. Trevor King
2016-10-03 15:36 ` Jeremy Morton
2016-10-03 17:18 ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-04 11:41 ` Heiko Voigt
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