On Pk, 2015-08-21 at 17:07 -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Jānis Rukšāns <janis.ruksans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > A major drawback of submodules in my opinion is the > > inability to make a full clone from an existing one without having > > access to the central repository, which is something I have to do from > > time to time. > > Can you elaborate on that a bit more? > git clone --recurse-submodules should do that no matter which remote > you contact? I mean that if I have cloned a repository with submodules, cloning that repository with --recurse-submodules will either access the "central server" if absolute URLs are used, or requires additional clones for each submodule. For example git clone --recursive http://somewhere/projectA.git git clone --recursive file://$(pwd)/projectA projectA.tmp The second command will cause the submodules to be downloaded again, or expect them to be found in $(pwd). Or am I mistaken, or doing something wrong? -- 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