From kde-scm-interest  Sat Aug 16 08:10:21 2008
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:10:21 +0000
To: kde-scm-interest
Subject: [Kde-scm-interest] requirements on git itself:
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Please follow my logic to see if this feature is needed and what it is:

in the proposed structure for KDE using Git, we'd have one repository=20
called KDE.git, which contains submodule links to

	kdelibs
	kdepimlibs
	kdebase
	kdeaccessibility
	kdeadmin
	...

That way, if someone wants to check out all of KDE, they only need to=20
clone that supermodule and tell it to initialise the submodules.

We also retain the ability of saying "this commit in kdebase requires that=
=20
commit in kdelibs" by way of a supermodule commit.

However, what happens if the developer only wants kdelibs, kdepimlibs and=20
kdebase?

If you don't initialise the other submodules, git will think they were=20
removed. Your next commit to the KDE.git supermodule will remove the=20
link.

So the feature I feel we need is for git submodule to ignore the=20
submodules that were not cloned.

This is similar to Subversion's --depth feature in checking out.
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