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

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 7, 2013, 21:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20130407212342.GA19857@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0k_vmXZr-x8=ZctouWbuVgv-1sptC0WX2aJ+yYD-T8cxA@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

>             It's about the core object code of git parsing links, as
> opposed to a fringe submodule.c/ submodule.sh parsing .gitmodules.

What's stopping the core object code of git parsing .gitmodules? What is the core object code? How does this compare to other metadata files like .gitattributes and .gitignore?

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