Add recursive submodule setting for Git repositories #920
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This PR requires a change to the
vcs
project PR I have submitted here:https://github.com/Masterminds/vcs/pull/82/files
This is to include a new option for dependencies called
recursive
which is a boolean setting that determines if using the--recursive
flag when working with git submodules is used or not. Here is an example configuration file.I have run into a problem specifically with the
git2go
project where one of the tests has a purposefully broken.gitmodules
file. When the--recursive
option is passed as thevcs
project always does the checkout will fail and there is no way to recover. Adding therecursive
option allows telling Git not to deal with recursive submodules. This is probably helpful in other scenarios as well where you are not interested in cloning recursive submodules.