Re: [PATCHv2 0/6] git clone: Marry --recursive and --reference

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On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> v3:
>
> Thanks to Junios critial questions regarding the design, I took a step back
> to look at the bigger picture.
>
> --super-reference sounds confusing. (what is the super referring to?)
> So drop that approach.
>
> Instead we'll compute where the reference might be in the superproject scope
> and ask the submodule clone operation to consider an optional reference.
> If the referenced alternate is not there, we'll just warn about it and
> carry on.
>

This makes a lot more sense to me, and being able to use
"reference-if-able" for regular clones may be a useful addition as
well.

I looked over the other patches and didn't see anything obviously
wrong, but take that with a grain of salt as I didn't spend a lot of
time at it.

Thanks,
Jake
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