[Kde-scm-interest] requirements on git itself: ignore-if-not-present submodules

[Thiago Macieira]

Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> If you don't initialise the other submodules, git will think they were
>> removed. Your next commit to the KDE.git supermodule will remove the
>> link.
>
>If this is the case, then it is a bug in git. The intention is that you
>don't need to check-out all submodules, and when you make a commit in
> the supermodule, then the submodule states recorded for the not
> checked-out submodules must remain unchanged, and not be removed.
>
>> So the feature I feel we need is for git submodule to ignore the
>> submodules that were not cloned.
>
>This feature should already be present.

I'll check it again. This problem appeared in the internal Qt repository, 
but that wasn't my checking it.

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