From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 20:58:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug with "git mv" and submodules, and with "git submodule add something --force"
Message-ID: <20181019205837.GA84932@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZ4NSCknQTkpurdj_CzD+XvFzdaz1bdxPTFizjwV8=rpA@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller wrote:

> Maybe for now we can do with just an update of the documentation/bugs
> section and say we cannot move files in and out of submodules?

I think we have some existing logic to prevent "git add"-ing a file
within a submodule to the superproject, for example.

So "git mv" should learn the same trick.  And perhaps the trick needs
to be moved down a layer (e.g. into the index API).  Hints?

Thanks,
Jonathan