Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT

On Friday 01 December 2006 23:41, sf wrote:

Linus Torvalds wrote:
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In contrast, a submodule that we don't fetch is an all-or-nothing 
situation: we simply don't have the data at all, and it's really a matter 
of simply not recursing into that submodule at all - much more like not 
checking out a particular part of the tree.

If you do not want to fetch all of the supermodule then do not fetch the
supermodule. Instead fetch only the submodules you are interested in.
You do not have to fetch the whole repository.

But what, when I *want* to fetch the supermodule because of the source
tree which is only available in the supermodule?

Of course, you can argue that the only objects in trees of a supermodule
should be submodule commits, but this is quite restricting the usage of
supermodules.

See further arguments for a submodule namespace in my other mail.
You probably want to specify policies about submodule handling. This
information has to be indexed by some name independent from a 
supermodule commit.

Josef