Re: [boost] [git-help] Clone / fetch specific submodule SHA?

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:

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On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:

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Does anyone know of a way to do a submodule update and clone that only fetches a specific SHA? In particular the SHA referenced in the superproject?

Isn't that what git submodule update does if you give it a path to the submodule? Assuming the super-project is on branch master, of course. So for Boost.Timer, do:

cd modular-boost # if needed git checkout master # if needed git submodule update libs/timer

Or did I misunderstand your question?

Yes, and no.. submodule update "checks out" the SHA of the commit in the reference of the superproject. It doesn't fetch or clone anything. What I'm asking is if there's a way to, give that I have the superproject (shallow clone, or partial history) to first fetch/clone the SHA of referenced in the superproject *only* and then update to that fetched SHA *only*.

PS. The reason I ask is because waiting the 5 to 10 minutes for all the submodules to clone for the testing scripts, i.e. the time I'm waiting around to see if changes I made to the testing scripts work, is getting rather depressing and annoying. -- -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - grafikrobot/yahoo