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

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 8, 2013, 08:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20130408081959.GD20159@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0m5iN8h0J1EkbMTJoXy6QHHzyTjRfPnhL3XMgi=NAi2eg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Ram,

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

>                                                     In my opinion,
> .gitmodules is a wart that needs to be done away with: it should _not_
> be on the filesystem, just like a commit object isn't on the
> filesystem.

What do you think of .gitignore and .gitattributes? Should they be somewhere other than the filesystem as well?

[...]

> What I still fail to understand is why you keep mentioning
> work-in-progress.  You've had five years in which you haven't been
> able to do things that I did in two days.

I don't think Jens had any obligation to work on submodules and nothing else for the last five years. ;-)

If you end up convincing others that your tools are worth working on and those tools pleasantly take care of the same workflows that submodules do, then I imagine people will be happy to migrate.

Speaking only for myself, I actually prefer the submodule UI, despite not being thrilled with the single-.gitmodules-file-at-the-root-of-the-worktree feature. So I will not be working on your proposed redesign, unless it evolves enough to be as pleasant a UI as (the long proposed UI of) submodules.

Hope that helps, Jonathan