Re: Adding nested repository with slash adds files instead of gitlink

From: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Date: Jun 20, 2018, 04:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20180620043956.GC6958@alpha>
In-Reply-To: <CACUQV5884fs2wp+R5a-99BbJGdEbujzu2iBny+PjPeL9JeOm8Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 11:29:02PM +0100, Rafael Ascensão wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 11:28 AM Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> wrote:
> >
> > Interesting and nobody complained to the mailinglist?
> >
> 
> For reference this was sometimes called "Fake Submodules" online.

Do you refer to cloning a repository in another repository, and running `git add path` (no trailing /) so that a gitlink is created without a .gitmodules file? Because that's not what Heiko is referring to.

What this is about that when doing `git add path/` (with trailing /), git will add the files of the cloned repository to the parent repo, and basically ignore that it's another repository.

And I guess no one complained because it looked like a feature rather than a bug.

Kevin