auto update submodule when checkout

[cathaysia]

If it's possbile auto update submodule when checkout to a new branch?

[stk-ableton]

Not right now. I have the following custom command that makes it easy to update submodules with a single keystroke (I find it too cumbersome to navigate to the submodules tab to do it there):

customCommands:
  - key: "U"
    command: "git submodule update --init --recursive"
    context: "global"
    description: "Update submodules"
    loadingText: "Updating Submodules..."
    stream: true

[cathaysia]

All right. Is this feature likely to be supported in the future?

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[stefanhaller]

Only if someone wants it badly enough to make a PR (not me).

For me there two reasons why I don't want it:

• I see how this can be useful for people who never make changes in submodules. If you do, though, it can be very annoying. For example, say you are making a change in a submodule and then want to try if the change also works on devel, so you check out devel, and your change is gone.
• It would make every checkout take slightly longer. Not much, but in my work repo a no-op submodule update takes 250ms, and I don't want to incur that cost on every checkout. Since it's easy to see when your submodules are out of date, and updating them is very easy with the custom command shown above, I rather do it manually when needed.

So if someone wants to work on a PR: please make it optional (with the default being off, I'd say). Also, doing it only on checkout is probably not enough, you'd also want it after pulling, and maybe after rebasing? Not sure where to stop...

[cathaysia]

You're right, it's easy to get confused if do too many things at once, the best bet is to do one thing at a time