From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:50:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT
Message-ID: <200612021450.46005.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <200612021004.22236.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Saturday 02 December 2006 11:04, Andy Parkins wrote:
> > So what do you do with deleted submodules?
> > You wouldn't want them to still sit around in your working directory,
> > but you still have to preserve them.
> 
> Now that is a tricky one.  Mind you, I think that problem exists for any 
> implementation.  I haven't got a good answer for that.

That suggests that it is probably better to separate submodule repositories
from their checked out working trees. Why not put the GITDIRs of the submodules
in subdirectories of the supermodules GITDIR instead?