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From: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: teach --single-branch and --branch during --recurse
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:20:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200127222019.GA233139@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200117210319.GA15460@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 04:03:19PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> (like trying to replace the use of "repo" in Android)

Oops, you saw right through us ;)

> It would make more sense to me to either (or both):
> 
>   - make sure that .gitmodules has enough information about which branch
>     to use for each submodule

Hum. I don't work with them day to day, but aren't we already in that
state? Is that not what the 'branch' option for each submodule means?

> 
>   - offer an extra option for the default branch to use for any
>     submodules. This is still not general enough to cover all situations
>     (e.g., the bar/baz you showed above), but it at least makes it
>     relatively easy to cover the simple cases, without breaking any
>     existing ones.

Yeah, this is sort of the direction my mind went too - "not
--branch recursively, but --submodule-branch". But that breaks down when you've
got a nontrivial number of submodules, at which point you're gonna have
a hard time unless you've got the .gitmodules configured correctly.


Well, as for this patch, let me try it with just --single-branch and see
whether that works for the case the user reported. I can head back to
the drawing board if not.

 - Emily

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-27 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-08 23:19 [PATCH] clone: teach --single-branch and --branch during --recurse Emily Shaffer
2020-01-08 23:39 ` Emily Shaffer
2020-01-09  8:11 ` Jeff King
2020-01-16 22:38   ` Emily Shaffer
2020-01-17 21:03     ` Jeff King
2020-01-27 22:20       ` Emily Shaffer [this message]
2020-01-27 22:49         ` Emily Shaffer
2020-01-27 23:10           ` Jeff King
2020-01-28  1:08             ` Emily Shaffer
2020-01-28  1:31               ` Jeff King
2020-01-28  2:10                 ` Emily Shaffer
2020-01-27 23:00         ` Jeff King
2020-01-28 22:17 ` [PATCH v2] clone: pass --single-branch during --recurse-submodules Emily Shaffer
2020-01-30 10:23   ` Jeff King
2020-02-21  2:53     ` Emily Shaffer
2020-02-21  3:16       ` Jeff King
2020-02-21  3:10   ` [PATCH v3 0/2] propagate --single-branch during clone --recurse-submodules Emily Shaffer
2020-02-21  3:10     ` [PATCH v3 1/2] submodule--helper: use C99 named initializer Emily Shaffer
2020-02-21  5:26       ` Jeff King
2020-02-22 20:13       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-21  3:10     ` [PATCH v3 2/2] clone: pass --single-branch during --recurse-submodules Emily Shaffer
2020-02-21  5:28       ` Jeff King

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