Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/7] Rework git core for native submodules

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 4, 2013, 18:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20130404185522.GM30308@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1365100243-13676-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> 1. 'git add' should not go past submodule boundaries.  I should not be
>    able to 'git add clayoven/' or 'git add clayoven/LICENSE'.  In
>    addition, the shell completion also needs to be fixed.

Yep.  This is a bug.

> 2. An empty directory containing a .git file is a perfectly valid
>    worktree, but does not show up in the superproject's 'git status'
>    output.  How can it be treated like an empty directory?

Stated like that, it doesn't sound like a bug. Git since very early has deliberately not tracked files or directories named .git.

Do you need this as a way of importing from a foreign VCS when someone has accidentally checked in a .git directory along with everything else?

Thanks, Jonathan