Stefan Beller writes:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> becomes easily doable (i.e. subsequent "submodule update" can realize
>> that the submodule does not have alternates but it could borrow from
>> the submodule in the other-super-project-location).
>
> I would sugges
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> becomes easily doable (i.e. subsequent "submodule update" can realize
> that the submodule does not have alternates but it could borrow from
> the submodule in the other-super-project-location).
I would suggest to postpone this to a later ti
Stefan Beller writes:
> At the time of cloning you may run
>
> git clone --recursive --reference
> or
> git clone --recursive --reference-if-able
> or
> git clone --recursive
That's an interesting tangent. I never meant "if-able" to be an
end-user visible option [*1*], but now you menti
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Stefan Beller writes:
>
>> The way I understood and implemented it is
>>
>> here is a path, try to use it as an alternate; if that is not
>> an alternate, it's fine too; maybe warn about it, but carry
>> on with the operation.
>
Stefan Beller writes:
> The way I understood and implemented it is
>
> here is a path, try to use it as an alternate; if that is not
> an alternate, it's fine too; maybe warn about it, but carry
> on with the operation.
My expectation is without "maybe warn about it". And not adding
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Stefan Beller writes:
>
>> "you did ask me to use alternates once and for all when setting up the
>> superproject: now for this added submodule I don't find the alternate;
>> That is strange?"
>
> Absolutely. I do not think you should expe
Junio C Hamano writes:
> Stefan Beller writes:
>
>> "you did ask me to use alternates once and for all when setting up the
>> superproject: now for this added submodule I don't find the alternate;
>> That is strange?"
>
> Absolutely. I do not think you should expect a user to remember if
> s/he
Stefan Beller writes:
> "you did ask me to use alternates once and for all when setting up the
> superproject: now for this added submodule I don't find the alternate;
> That is strange?"
Absolutely. I do not think you should expect a user to remember if
s/he used alternates when getting a copy
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:49 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Stefan Beller writes:
>
>> 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 ap
Stefan Beller writes:
> 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 i
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Stefan Beller 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
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 s
On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Stefan Beller writes:
>
>> Some submodules in the referenced superproject may not be there,
>> (they are just not initialized/cloned/checked out), which yields
>> an error for now.
>
> Perhaps you can teach "git clone --reference" an new
v2:
* fixed the p1,2 cleanups
* added documentation to patches 5,6
* improved commit message in v4
Thanks,
Stefan
v1:
Currently when cloning a superproject with --recursive and --reference
only the superproject learns about its alternates. The submodules are
cloned independently, whic
Stefan Beller writes:
> Some submodules in the referenced superproject may not be there,
> (they are just not initialized/cloned/checked out), which yields
> an error for now.
Perhaps you can teach "git clone --reference" an new option
(--reference-if-able) to do this? Then
When `--re
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