From: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:28:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] submodule: add 'deinit' command
Message-ID: <20121213002805.GA8380@odin.tremily.us>
In-Reply-To: <7vsj7a268w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 03:35:59PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:
> 
> > Should `deinit` remove the submodule checkout, replace it with the
> > original gitlink, and clear the .git/config information then?  That
> > would restore the user to the state they'd be in if they were never
> > interested in the submodule.
> 
> AFAIU, "restore the user to the state" is the goal.  I am not sure
> what you meant by "replace it with the original gitlink", though.  A
> checkout with a submodule that the user is not interested in would
> have an empty directory at that path, no?

Ah yes, the gitlink is only in the index.  Sorry for the noise.

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