Re: git-submodule is missing --dissociate option

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Casey Fitzpatrick [off-list ref] wrote:

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It also seems to be missing "--progress", and I imagine others.
Perhaps submodule add/update should be reworked to automatically
accept all the options that clone would?

--progress is not missing, but I see that it isn't documented. It was
added in 72c5f88311 ("clone: pass --progress decision to recursive
submodules", 2016-09-22). What you're suggesting makes sense, but as
shown in that commit it's not easy for it to happen automatically,
there's a lot of boilerplate involved.

But since you're interested you can see how to add new options with
that patch, it should be easy for anyone not experienced with the
codebase, it's all just boilerplate + adding a test.

I think it is going in the right direction overall, but a few corner
cases may need special attention.  "add" may be adding a new module
that locally originates, in which case "clone" is not relevant.
Similarly, for "update"options for "clone" are not relevant unless
it is the very initial one.