Re: [PATCH 2/2] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories

>> All at the cost of recording a little configuration somewhere.  If we
>> want to decrease the configuration, we can avoid recording it there in
>> the easy cases (e.g. when name == gitdirname).  That's "just" an
>> optimization.
>
> Sounds good, but gerrit for example would not take advantage of such
> optimisation as they have slashes in their submodules. :-(
> I wonder if we can optimize further and keep slashes if there is
> no conflict (as then name == gitdirname, so it can be optimized).

>> And then we have the ability later to handle all the edge cases we
>> haven't handled yet today:
>>
>> - sharding when the number of submodules is too large
>> - case-insensitive filesystems
>> - path name length limits
>> - different sets of filesystem-special characters
>>
>> Sane?
>
> I'll keep thinking about it.