Re: [PATCH/RFC] submodule: add ability to shallowly clone any branch in a submodule

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On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:33:51PM +0200, Cole wrote:
> Also if there is anything else you are currently looking at regarding
> submodules or thinking about, I would be glad to hear about it or to try
> look at it while I am working on these changes. Or if there is anything
> you can think of for me to check with regards to these changes that
> would also be appreciated.

When implementing the --depth argument for submodules, I would have
prefered that the depth was set from the commit of the submodules
refered from the superprojekt and not it's branch.

However this can't be done, since you can only clone from refs and not
from a commit. However there's nothing that stops us from allowing to
clone from a commit (of course we need to make sure that that commit is
in a tree with a ref as leaf).

I see this as a natural next step for the --depth function and something
needed for it to be really useful. I'm actually suprised that people
successfully uses the --depth function already since you always need to
know how deep down the commit is.

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