Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/10] submodule--helper init: set submodule.<name>.active

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:47:14 -0700

Brandon Williams <[email-masked]> writes:

> So if we did
>
>   git clone --submodule-spec=lib/
>
> then each module under 'lib/' won't have their submodule.<name>.active
> config set since submodule.active=lib/ already encompasses them.

Ah, OK.  That removes my worries ;-)  Thanks for an explanation.