Hi,
for some time now I have been thinking about submodules which are
not checked out by default. So for example if you have a project which
consist of the submodules:
project/core
/help
/app
...
Consider the situation that 'help' is really big because it is a user
friendly application ;)
So you usually do not need the help folder to develop the application
but it still is tied to a certain revision.
For such a workflow I would like to implement what I call 'loose'
submodules. Where a
git clone project.git
cd project
git submodule init && git submodule update
would omit the 'help' folder. But in case I specify it directly like
git submodule init help
it would update to the recorded revision.
Of course the relation would be configurable. E.g.:
git config submodule."name".relation loose
and the opposite as
git config submodule."name".relation tight
Initially the implementation would only deal with the initialization
case. As a second step I would like to deal with the situation whether a
submodule should be shown as changed or not. What do you think about such
an extension?
cheers Heiko
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