On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:03:49PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@xxxxxxxxxx> [2007.08.21.2225 +0200]: > > > Users who clone the project's repository need to initialize each > > > submodule before they can work with it. By initializing > > > > I suppose this is implicit in the git submodule man page, > > It wasn't to me; that's why I am doing all this. I meant that the rest of my sentence could probably be implicitly understood. > > but this is only true if you actually want to use git submodule to > > work with the submodules. > > Is it? I tried this and after cloning a repo with submodules, it > created the submodule directories alright, but it did not actually > check them out/populate them, so they were empty. Some people have been doing this manually or have homegrown scripts. Not that you should mention those options here. > > > > a submodule, the submodule's url is copied from the > > > .gitmodules > > > > As I mentioned before, this is not strictly true. (see init::) > > You're missing something like "... unless the submodule is already > registered, in which case it won't be overwritten", right? Something like that, yes. skimo - 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
