From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:42:13 GMT Subject: Re: Composing git repositories Message-ID: <20130327204213.GG28148@google.com> In-Reply-To: <7vppyklhot.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano wrote: > I however do not see the implementation detail of having (or not > having) separate $GIT_DIR for component projects having anything to > do with the goal of that ideal. Yeah, I think the current gitlink-instead-of-full-git-dir-for-submodules implementation that can allow "git rm" to remove a submodule and "git checkout --recurse-submodules" to later revive it is good.