On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:10 PM, John Smith <johsmi9933@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I found that I use submodules much, much more often in my git projects than I used externals > in Subversion and the reason is that git encourages/forces to organize large projects into > smaller repositories, one reason for this being that subversion allows to check out parts of > a repository while git does not. > > But when I clone a git repository with subprojects, I (and everyone else) has to remember to > add the --recursive option. When switching between branches with different versions/commits of the > submodules everyone has to remember to update the submodules. When updating a submodule > everyone has to remember to recurse there too. The config option fetch.recurseSubmodules exists. It's not quite the same as what git clone --recurse-submodules does but it's a start. > > Basically, everything with submodules has to be done manually every time and there seems > to be no way to change that default. > > Why is that? Basically all the time I use submodules I would want automatic handling of > submodules to happen and I cannot remember having had a single situation where I would > not have wanted it to happen. So why does git default to doing nothing? It's hard to pick a default that suits every workflow that submodules support. Also with submodules there is a chicken-and-egg scenario. While you can put things in ~/.gitconfig most of what you'd want to configure when using submodules would be in super/.git/config but that doesn't exist until you've cloned super.git. > Why does it not provide a way to enable automatic > pulling/updating of submodules e.g. when cloning or switching branches? I believe Jens and Stefan (Cc'd) have been doing some great work in this area. Jens even posted his todo list a few days ago (https://github.com/jlehmann/git-submod-enhancements/wiki). > When would people routinely check out a branch and want to stay with the submodules as > the have been checked out for the old branch? > > I honestly do not understand it. > > John > > ____________________________________________________________ > Can't remember your password? Do you need a strong and secure password? > Use Password manager! It stores your passwords & protects your account. > Check it out at http://mysecurelogon.com/manager > > > -- > 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 -- 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