From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:56:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] clone: introduce clone.submoduleGitDir to relocate $GITDIR
Message-ID: <7v8v4jqzru.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <516C63DA.4080209@xiplink.com>

Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> writes:

> So it looks like the proposed change to git-clone provides no benefit to the
> submodule-adding machinery, which still needs to know when and how to
> relocate .git directories.
>
> Ram, assuming Junio's explanations match your intentions, if the whole

That is a huge assumption, given that I have a proven track record
of guessing Ram's intention wrong ;-).

> motivation for this change is "to make 'git add' DTRT wrt submodules, and
> deprecate 'git submodule add'" then I don't think it's bringing you any
> closer to that goal.