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Can't pass multiple config values to clone or clone_from #824
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Indeed the current API doesn't allow to do that or even to workaround this issue.
There is no easy workaround, as it would entail using the Git command-wrapper directly and possibly repeating some logic. The latter is able to receive*args, so you can do things like this:git.clone(..., '--config=foo', '--config=bar', ...).I'm fairly new to Python programming but I've implemented a fix so that one can pass config values to the clone and clone_from methods. I have some cleanup to do and need to do more testing but I think it works.
The clone command in git supports a --config parameter that can be repeated several times on the command line to set multiple config parameters. There is no why to call clone or clone_from with multiple config parameters. What I would like to do is:
Repo.clone_from(url, dir, config='submodule.repo1.update=none', config='submodule.repo2.update=checkout')This can't be done because there are multiple keywords repeatedly passed to clone. You can't construct a dictionary for the same reason. One solution would be to allow for any string to be passed to to the underlying git process.