Re: [RFC] submodule+shallow clone feature request

Hi,

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Schuyler Duveen [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

My use case is deploying from a git repository, which would be even more
graceful with the following features:

1. When 'git clone' has both --recursive and --depth, then submodules
are also checked out shallow (for speed/bandwidth).

2. Some way to specify an override on .gitmodules sources.  This is
because our .gitmodules includes public, read-only sources (github),
rather than our local repos we would prefer to deploy from (for the
purpose of reliability).

These should be doable if you do not use --recursive, so I don't think 
they are insurmountable issues.  I suspect many people would welcome 
such enhancements to the "git submodule" potty.

Yes. Note, though, that the problems of enhancing git-submodule are not 
technical, as we can learn from the recent history, including the lack of 
support for rebasing submodules (there _were_ patches!).

Ciao,
Dscho