Re: Paper cut bug: Why isn't "git clone xxxx" recursive by default?

2014-06-03 Thread Mara Kim
That is good to hear. I would be pretty happy about that. ^.^ Obviously any major changes will need to be done carefully. I was thinking of the way that you guys introduced new defaults for Git 2.0, phasing them in slowly through the 1.x cycle. Maybe I can get my hopes up for Git 3.0 --- 9 year

Re: Paper cut bug: Why isn't "git clone xxxx" recursive by default?

2014-06-03 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano writes: > Mara Kim writes: > >> Apologies if this question has been asked already, but what is the >> reasoning behind making git clone not recursive (--recursive) by >> default? > > The primary reason why submodules are separate repositories is not > to require people to have eve

Re: Paper cut bug: Why isn't "git clone xxxx" recursive by default?

2014-06-03 Thread Junio C Hamano
Mara Kim writes: > Apologies if this question has been asked already, but what is the > reasoning behind making git clone not recursive (--recursive) by > default? The primary reason why submodules are separate repositories is not to require people to have everything. Some people want recursive

Paper cut bug: Why isn't "git clone xxxx" recursive by default?

2014-06-03 Thread Mara Kim
Hello git devs! I'd like to start off by saying that git is an amazing piece of software and every one of you deserve major kudos for your work on the project. However, I'd like to point out a few "paper cut" bugs (to use the Ubuntu parlance). Apologies if this question has been asked already, b