hub submodule add

[mislav]

hub submodule add

[stephencelis]

And manpages:

http://github.com/stephencelis/hub/commit/fe847adb36d2a570a6bbca5078643dd657420660

[defunkt]

If we're going to add submodule support to hub, I'd like to go full on:

• Adding a submodule
• Removing a submodule
• Updating all existing submodules

I've never gotten the hang of submodules and I think there's a real opportunity to slim them down and make them more usable. What do you think?

[stephencelis]

Submodules are agreeably a mess. I'd be interested in simplifying submodule removal (currently requires manual editing of .git/config and .gitmodules, git rm --cached path/to/submodule, and rm -fr path/to/submodule). Not sure what the syntax would be: git submodule remove or git submodule rm (or both)?

Updating is easy enough, though obtuse (git submodule foreach git pull). Not sure how to simplify this without further confusing the already-confusing difference with git submodule update (which will pull in local updates but not fetch remotes, I think).

I wonder if hub is the right place for these non-GitHub optimizations, though? Should there be an additional wrapper?

[jridgewell]

My own two cents:

• Use git submodule rm, as it keeps in line with git remote rm
• Use git submodule update, and run a fetch and update. (Another possibility would be git submodule pull)

[mislav]

We shouldn't change the semantics of submodule update. I'm all for a new command; submodule pull seems nice.

[defunkt]

hub submodule add has been merged, closing this for now. Thanks!