Re: [PATCHv2 0/6] git clone: Marry --recursive and --reference

On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Stefan Beller [off-list ref] wrote:

v3:

Thanks to Junios critial questions regarding the design, I took a step back
to look at the bigger picture.

--super-reference sounds confusing. (what is the super referring to?)
So drop that approach.

Instead we'll compute where the reference might be in the superproject scope
and ask the submodule clone operation to consider an optional reference.
If the referenced alternate is not there, we'll just warn about it and
carry on.

This makes a lot more sense to me, and being able to use
"reference-if-able" for regular clones may be a useful addition as
well.

I looked over the other patches and didn't see anything obviously
wrong, but take that with a grain of salt as I didn't spend a lot of
time at it.

Thanks,
Jake