From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 02:23:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarified how "git submodule add" handles relative paths.
Message-ID: <4DE99724.9090607@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vhb86a4kt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 06/03/2011 07:16 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jens Lehmann<Jens.Lehmann@web.de>  writes:
> The "how about this" patch you are voting against (I am neutral by the
> way) is a response to your earlier "I have three use cases and the current
> implementation is forgetting the third", which in turn was a response to
> my "your third use case does not count, so the updated wording of the
> documentation is wrong---it should say 'do not', not 'cannot'".
>
> So what should the updated document say?
>
If I understand this correctly, the third use case isn't actually 
unique: if the upstream repo is on a local file system, why not just use 
a file://... url for the super project's origin?

Mark