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From: 4dr14n31t0r Th3 G4m3r <4dr14n31t0r@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Feature Request: Add 'active' configuration to .gitmodules
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 12:19:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOKK28C4-3-+rxcggYdYuzuxNqdstA8BfJtY63KkHF=iZ+soxg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

There are cases in which reading the 'active' config from the
.gitmodules file can be useful. For instance, if you are working in a
feature branch in the superproject and that feature requires some
submodules to be active, it is redundant to each time any new
developer that checks out this feature branch to also mark as active
these submodules. This way, when you record the contents of the
superproject in a commit you can also record which submodules where
active at the moment.

You can have git reading first the active config from .git/config, and
if that configuration is not present use the one in .gitmodules to
allow compatibility with older versions of git.

If you read the url configuration from the .gitmodules file the same
way, you wouldn't have to initialize each time the submodules.

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