On 8/16/07, martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
quoted text
> I have one open question though: why require init?

The purpose of 'init' is to inform git-submodule about which
submodules you want to checkout. E.g. for a project with submodules in
directories 'a', 'b' and 'c', you could do

$ git submodule init b c
$ git submodule update

This would only fetch/checkout the submodules in direcotories 'b' and
'c', while 'git submodule status' would still inform you that there is
actually three submodules available.

Note: If you wanted to initialize all three submodules at once, you
could simply do

$ git submodule init

--
larsh
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