From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:55:22 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/7] Rework git core for native submodules 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