> > Idea:
> > If git checkout-files modifies the submodules file, it could also
> > auto-update the submodules. (For example, with something like "git
> > submodule update --init --recursive --progress").
>
> This one is tricky because we should deal with submodule autoupdate
> consistently across all porcelain commands (or at least common ones),
> not just checkout-files. I'd prefer to delay this until later. Once we
> figure out what to do with other commands, then we can still change
> defaults for checkout-files.
checkout/reset are respecting the submodule.recurse setting for this
already, and as your patches only change the UX frontend
git -c submodule.recurse checkout-files <pathsspec>
would also touch submodules. Given that deep down in
the submodules it's all about files again, we could think
checkout-files is still a good name.
I think Stefan X. is asking for making submodule.recurse
to default to true, which is indeed unrelated to this.
Stefan
