Jens Lehmann wrote: > *) The fetch is only done when the recorded submodule commit isn't > already present. I like this part a lot. > I tend to think that this is suited for 1.7.5 but don't have any > objections against holding it back until 1.8.0 either. What do > others think? I see no backward-compatibility to wait for this, but I would be more included to trust people using "git submodule update" heavily than I do. The "submodule update" change could cause the following to break. Would that be disruptive? cd submodule git fetch --no-recurse-submodules ... cd .. bin/script-to-update-submodules-that-calls-submodule-update Thanks a lot for working on this. Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html