Re: [RFC/PATCH] Re: git submodule -b ... of current HEAD fails

Jens Lehmann wrote:

Am 01.12.2010 19:50, schrieb Jonathan Nieder:

quoted

                                 Jens, any idea why git submodule
is not using "clone --branch" directly?

Nope, these lines date back to the time before I got involved in the
submodule business ... Seems like this "git checkout" was added in
March 2008 by Mark Levedahl (CCed), maybe he can shed some light on
that.

Ah, so the problem is that "clone --branch" did not exist.  Sorry for
the noise.

Another question can be also be easily answered by history examination:
the series of checks in module_clone are because 70c7ac22d:git-clone.sh
did not have checks of its own for the target directory.

So there is some simplification within grasp.

'night,
Jonathan