On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, Hi, sorry for a real late answer to this, > > AFAIK Git has two ways to clone a repository with respect to submodules: > > (1) Plain clone of just the repository itself: > git clone git://github.com/foo/bar.git > > (2) Recursive clone of the repository including all its submodules: > git clone --recursive git://github.com/foo/bar.git > > I am working on a big cross platform project and on certain platforms I don't need certain submodules. AFAIK there is no way to selectively clone only a subset of the submodules with the standard command line interface. I wonder if something like an exclude pattern for submodules would be of general interest. I imagine a call like this after a plain "clone" operation: > > git submodule update --init --recursive --exclude 3rdParty/Windows/* > > or even: > > git clone --recursive --exclude 3rdParty/Windows/* git://github.com/foo/bar.git > > Please let me know what you think. I am looking forward for exactly that feature, I even proposed exactly this (in form of RFC patches, see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/281670) I plan on reviving this soon. Did you solve this problem as Jens proposed or are you still looking for a solution? Thanks, Stefan > > > Thanks, > Lars > > > PS: I posted this question already on the Google Git group here: > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/git-users/jyKsd45d2MA > > I am sorry, but I discovered this mailing list afterwards and I am not sure which one is the appropriate one. Please advise. > > > --- > https://larsxschneider.github.io/-- > 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