On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Kannan Goundan <kannan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Git submodules seem to be a great fit for one of our repos. The biggest > pain point is that it's too easy to forget to update submodules. > > 1. I often forget since most repos don't need it. > 2. Infrequent users of our repo almost never know to update submodules and > end up coming to us with strange build errors. > 3. Existing scripts that work with Git repos are usually not built to handle > submodules. > > In the common case of the submodule content having no local edits, it would > be nice if "git checkout" automatically updated submodules [1]. If there > are local edits, it could error out (maybe override with > "--ignore-modified-submodules" or something). > > I'm not a Git expert, though. Is there a reason something like this isn't > already implemented? Maybe there's an existing write-up or mailing list > thread I can read to get some background information? > > Thanks! > > [1] Our post-checkout procedure is: > > git submodule sync > git submodule update --init > git submodule foreach --recursive \ > 'git submodule sync ; git submodule update --init' > > (Not sure if this is correct. Different articles/blogs suggest a slightly > different set of commands.) > Checkout [1]. There are lots of good patches, but hard to find. (Including, but not limited to a recursive git checkout enhancement!) That said I've recently started working on submodules, too. I am trying to push my work upstream as fast as possible as that works best for us. [1] https://github.com/jlehmann/git-submod-enhancements/wiki -- 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