Carlo Wood <carlo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> In a project containing submodules, one of the submodules
> contains a submodule itself, which in turn also contains
> a submodule.
>
> Overview:
>
> project/foobar [submodule]
> project/cwm4 [submodule]
> project/evio [submodule]
> project/evio/protocol/matrixssl [submodule]
> project/evio/protocol/matrixssl/cwm4 [submodule]
>
> ('protocol' is a normal subdirectory)
>
> Running (with or without the --quiet),
>
> $ git submodule --quiet update --init --recursive --remote
> Fetching submodule protocol/matrixssl
> Fetching submodule protocol/matrixssl/cwm4
> Fetching submodule cwm4
>
> This is odd (a bug imho) because
>
> 1) it seems to only print this fetching information for submodules inside submodules,
> not for the top-level submodules.
> 2) it even prints this when using --quiet
> 3) it prints this every time (also when there is nothing more to fetch).
Sounds like a symptom of (a) the top-level "git submodule update"
knowing how to react to "--quiet" but (b) it forgets to pass down
the "--quiet" when it recursively runs "git submodule update" in its
submodules?
