Thanks for the explanation. I didn't realize some projects don't want to initialize all their submodules, but the explicit opt-in idea you described sounds nice. I've seen cases where people will financially "sponsor" feature development in open source projects. Is there any precedent for this in the Git project? Is it ok to use this mailing list to ask about such things? -- 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